A lucrative cannabis producer license that was issued by the New Mexico Department of Health with little notice only days before the agency lost its regulatory authority is raising eyebrows. The license awarded to Albuquerque-based GH LLC came less than a week before the health department ceded authority over the state’s Medical Cannabis Program (MCP) to the state’s new Cannabis Control Division, which was created following the legalization of adult-use cannabis by New Mexico lawmakers in April. According to documents obtained under a public records request, on June 25, only two days after the application instructions were posted, GH LLC submitted a 731-page application for a nonprofit medical cannabis producer license. But in a brief interview last week, GH LLC founder Vance Dugger apparently shrugged off the controversy over the license, saying “We submitted an application like everyone else.” Some of the state’s marijuana industry insiders are calling for an investigation into the affair amid allegations of favoritism.
A lucrative cannabis producer license that was issued by the New Mexico Department of Health with little notice only days before the agency lost its regulatory authority is raising eyebrows. Some of the state’s marijuana industry insiders are calling for an investigation into the affair amid allegations of favoritism.
The license awarded to Albuquerque-based GH LLC came less than a week before the health department ceded authority over the state’s Medical Cannabis Program (MCP) to the state’s new Cannabis Control Division, which was created following the legalization...
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