Recreational weed appears DOA

[TexasTowelie]

Advocates are making their final push to get a recreational marijuana bill passed this legislative session, but the odds of New Mexico becoming the 11th state (or 12th, counting DC) in the country to enshrine full legalization appear to be growing slim.

The proposed Cannabis Regulation Act, which would remove criminal penalties for possessing and consuming marijuana, has passed the state House of Representatives and is now working its way through Senate committees.

Sen. John Arthur Smith, the conservative Democrat of Deming who chairs the powerful Senate Finance Committee, says HB 356 won’t likely be heard in his committee before the session wraps.

"It's a long shot," Smith tells SFR. "Appropriations takes priority," he adds, referring to the appropriations bill that was also before the committee.

Read more: https://www.sfreporter.com/news/2019/03/11/recreational-weed-appears-doa/

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1. I hear that

Clemente Sanchez is at the forefront of sabotaging this legislation, and that he’s basically an obstructionist, and DINO.