New Mexico’s Local Governments Face ‘Enormous’ Task Regulating Cannabis | Cannabis Culture

The next step in New Mexico’s legalized cannabis rollout likely will come in city council and county commission meetings throughout the state, when local governments must decide how — and where — retailers can operate.

Some cities, including Albuquerque, already are embroiled in debates on the locations of such shops. Others, like Santa Fe and Santa Fe County, are only beginning those discussions.

“These are huge conversations, and we are just at the start of it because the state is developing the rules as we speak, and we have to figure out what that means for Santa Fe and what we want,” City Councilor Carol Romero-Wirth said.

– Read the entire article at Santa Fe New Mexican.