A marijuana tax is now funding $750 no-strings-attached monthly payments to families in New Mexico

https://www.businessinsider.com/albuquerque-new-mexico-basic-income-marijuana-tax-2025-5

17 comments

  1. Meanwhile, the idiots in Texas just choked off their cannabis revenue stream.

  2. Wish we had this in Texas

    Upcoming elections TEXAS:

    November 4, 2025

    March 3, 2026

    Mark your calendars!

  3. Every US citizen deserves a UBI. Technology was supposed to bring us the 15-hour work week and more leisure time. Instead we let a few people become billionaires and trillionaires.

  4. and with that, the conclusion of the war on drugs

    if you can’t beat it, atleast profit off of it

    if they want to do the same with harder drugs, run some sort of program similar to some european countries as a harm reduction program

    sell taxed up needles to addicts and provide a safe place for them to be inebriated at, it’s time to start rehabilitating people the american way

  5. As long as it’s federally illegal, and getting a CDL requires clean urine, isn’t any state level fake legalization just a vote for more expensive everything?

    Not blanket anti marijuana, just asking an honest question given trucking is how most of our nation’s good move, and their being zero progress on federal reclassification of marijuana.

  6. Marijuana is legal in my state too. unfortunately, Oregon likes to waste money so spend it frivolous instead of returning it to taxpayers

  7. It’s funny they offer financial counseling. It’s like we’re a family of 4, on a single $12/hr income.

    The only financial advice would be rob a bank

  10. A state needs to follow Alaska’s lead and do a statewide UBI using Marijuana revenue and land value taxes and other Pigovian taxes. And tap into AI revenue too in some way.

  11. It’s tough having to smoke to deal with life, get over taxed on it, and deal with jobs. While I think the program is one thing, why the pot heads pay it?

  12. According to the article this is being given to 80 families in 2 districts. Definitely dope but not the UBI the title implies

  14. Then they’ll spend $750/mo on weed, this perpetuating the cycle

    Self-sustaining economy

  15. Neighbor to the east is gonna try to Texas your New Mexico. Stay vigilant New Mexicans!

  16. This makes absolutely no sense. For this to be true, you’d need the average person in NM to be spending >>$750 per month for marijuana. If you can smoke $750 of weed in a month, my hat is off to you.

  17. So when they say “no strings attached” and “families” does that mean there aren’t income limits? And how does it define families, do households get more money if there’s more people?

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