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In later years the list of qualifying conditions was expanded, [15] and an allowance for cultivation by patients was added as well. [16] Senate Bill 523 passed the Senate by a vote of 32–3 and the House by a vote of 36–31, [17] making New Mexico the 12th state to legalize medical use and the 4th to do so through an act of state legislature ...
It was the first time a legalization bill had been advanced to the New Mexico Legislature for a vote. [2] The bill passed in the House, 36–34, on March 7, 2019. [3] [4] The corresponding bill in the New Mexico Senate was S.B. 577. [5] A difference between the bills is that under the Senate legislation, cannabis would be sold in state-owned ...
The sentence of many criminal offenses relating to narcotic was reduced as the new law focuses more on drug rehabilitation. According to the Narcotic Code, narcotic substances are divided into 5 categories. [56] [57] Category I – highly addictive narcotic such as heroin, amphetamines, methamphetamines, etc.
A federal judge in El Paso recently sentenced the convicted leader of a New Mexico drug trafficking ring with ties to the Sinaloa drug cartel to life in prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office said ...
Dec. 12—A 46-year-old alleged New Mexico drug trafficker is expected to spend the rest of his life in prison after a federal jury convicted him on Tuesday of gunning down a government witness ...
The 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances made it mandatory for the signatory countries to "adopt such measures as may be necessary to establish as criminal offences under its domestic law" (art. 3, § 1) all the activities related to the production, sale, transport, distribution, etc. of the substances included in the most ...
However, it is not unheard of for Congress to intervene in the drug scheduling process; in February 2000, for instance, the 105th Congress, in its second official session, passed Public Law 106-172, also known as the Hillory J. Farias and Samantha Reed Date-Rape Drug Prohibition Act of 2000, [24] adding GHB to Schedule I. [25] On June 23, 2011 ...
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