Gov. Susana Martinez has announced that the names of state medical marijuana dispensaries and their employees will soon be made public.
The Albuquerque Journal reports that the governor's announcement came Wednesday, less than a week after a lawsuit was filed in an effort to strike down the regulation allowing the names of medical marijuana producers to be confidential.
The decision will only apply to producers and their employees and not the nearly 16,000 patients certified in the state's Medical Cannabis Program.
The Department of Health, which previously defended the confidentiality rule based on security reasons for medical pot producers and patients, will now have to formally change the rule. It was unclear Wednesday how long that process would take.
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