Bill > HB283

This bill amends the Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act to allow qualified patients to use medical cannabis within health care facilities, with certain restrictions. Specifically, patients will be prohibited from smoking or vaping cannabis, and facilities must implement reasonable measures to ensure safe storage and use, such as requiring cannabis to be kept in a locked container. Each health care facility, defined as a hospital, outpatient facility, diagnostic and treatment center, rehabilitation center, freestanding hospice, or similar medical care provider (but not facilities primarily for substance use disorder recovery), will need to create and share written guidelines for medical cannabis use and storage. The bill also allows health care facilities to temporarily stop following these rules if the U.S. Department of Justice or the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services takes enforcement action or issues a rule explicitly banning medical cannabis use in such facilities.

https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legtype=B&legno=283&year=26