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New Mexico bid for recreational marijuana is all but doomed

by Associated Press
| February 13, 2020 3:05 PM

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico's bid to become the 12th U.S. state to legalize recreational use of marijuana abruptly fell flat after state senators in a legislature dominated by Democrats rejected a bill that would have forced permission for sales in all of the state's cities and towns.

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