The state company overseeing New Mexico’s hashish trade introduced it has recalled moldy merchandise discovered on the cabinets of a medical hashish retailer with dispensaries in Santa Fe and different cities.
The Hashish Management Division additionally ordered Sacred Backyard to “stop and desist” manufacturing and manufacturing operations, the company stated in a information launch issued Friday. The corporate, which additionally has websites in Albuquerque, Las Cruces and Ruidoso, is allowed to proceed working its shops.
The motion comes only a week earlier than retailers can start promoting leisure hashish to adults 21 and over. Most, if not all, medical hashish shops within the state are anticipated to start promoting hashish to recreational-use costumers, together with sufferers, April 1.
The information launch stated the state started investigating Sacred Backyard after receiving a grievance from a medical hashish affected person.
Kent Little, common supervisor of Sacred Backyard, wrote in an electronic mail Friday his group is “dedicated to working inside all guidelines and laws promulgated by the state. Sacred Backyard would by no means do something to violate the belief of the affected person base now we have labored along with for 10 years.”
He stated Sacred Backyard is in compliance with the Hashish Management Division’s mandates to close down manufacturing and manufacturing operations.
The recalled merchandise containing mildew had been taken off the cabinets. They embrace “hashish bud, pre-rolls and meals merchandise from strains named Snow Cone and Protégé ’78,” in keeping with the information launch.
A Hashish Management Division investigator performed a web site go to at a Sacred Backyard dispensary and gathered samples of merchandise from the identical batch offered to the affected person, the information launch stated. The samples had been taken to the state laboratory in Albuquerque for testing, and had been discovered to include “ranges of mildew above regulatory ranges.”
The Hashish Management Division urges sufferers who bought merchandise from Sacred Backyard shops to evaluation their labels for lot numbers and examine them in opposition to numbers posted on the company’s web site at ccd.rld.state.nm.us/recall-information. If numbers match for a product, it needs to be destroyed, the company stated.