{"id":3363,"date":"2026-09-01T18:39:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/?page_id=3363"},"modified":"2026-09-01T18:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:39:58","slug":"new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/?page_id=3363","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kratom remains <strong>legal at the state level in New Mexico<\/strong>, but local municipal health actions and regulatory warnings are active <br>within the state.<br><br><strong>Statewide Legal Status<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The New Mexico Attorney General has issued public consumer advisories regarding unverified claims and product purity, though no statewide ban accompanied the warning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plain leaf kratom and kratom products can legally be bought, sold, and possessed throughout New Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no current statewide ban or active state legislation scheduling kratom as a controlled substance.<br><br><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Municipal &amp; Local Actions<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Albuquerque<\/mark><br>The city&#8217;s Environmental Health Department implemented local enforcement actions <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">banning and pulling retail kratom sales<\/mark> using public health code authority and food safety regulations. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cabq.gov\/environmentalhealth\/news\/environmental-health-department-enforces-ban-of-kratom-sales\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cabq.gov\/environmentalhealth\/news\/environmental-health-department-enforces-ban-of-kratom-sales\">Environmental Health Department<\/a> <br><br><strong>Santa F<\/strong>e<br>Local city council members and health officials have discussed potential local sales controls and zoning restrictions targeting vape shops and smoke shops carrying unrefined or high-potency extracts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kratom remains legal at the state level in New Mexico, but local municipal health actions and regulatory warnings are active within the state. Statewide Legal Status The New Mexico Attorney General has issued public consumer advisories regarding unverified claims and product purity, though no statewide ban accompanied the warning. Plain leaf kratom and kratom products [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3363","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3363\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}