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A southern New Mexico hemp company announced a significant expansion in Las Cruces, a sign the region's small but growing hemp industry is starting to blossom.

Burgeoning hemp industry takes root in southern New Mexico

February 27, 2020 at 2:24 p.m.

The state Economic Development Department announced this week that Natural ReLeaf, a group that began growing hemp last year in Berino, a small town south of Las Cruces, is planning...

New Mexico’s water takes a hit from cannabis farms

January 6, 2020 at 12:43 p.m.

More medical cannabis plants are being grown in New Mexico than ever before. But two rural water systems in Sandoval County say the crop may be depleting local water supplies,...

Minerva cannabis dispensary assistant manager Celina Roybal, right, sells a vial of marijuana to customer Tina Bernal, who uses cannabis to relieve chronic pain, in Santa Fe, N.M. New Mexico would use proceeds from recreational marijuana to eliminate taxes on medical cannabis and subsidize sales to low-income patients under a legalization proposal from an expert panel appointed by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.

New Mexico medical marijuana users struggle to keep up with costs

November 4, 2019 at 12:13 p.m.

Nicole Tesch is a single mother whose 3-year-old daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of epilepsy just days after being born. Tesch, a Los Lunas resident, said she's unable...

It's been a learning year for New Mexico hemp producers, with plenty of trial and error as growers attempted to find the right approach to growing in sometimes-unforgiving conditions.

Hope and headaches for hemp in New Mexico

October 30, 2019 at 11:14 a.m.

The harvest of New Mexico's first crop of industrial hemp since legalization is well underway, and early returns show reasons for optimism and some challenges for the new industry. The...

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