By Morgan Aguilar / KOB 4

Published on March 1, 2017

With New Mexico’s medical marijuana industry growing and evolving every day, a facility in Bernalillo now has the green light to start producing some products that are new to the country.

Ultra Health celebrated with a ribbon cutting ceremony at the facility this week.

“I know it’s true medicine because we used it for my husband who had Stage 3 cancer and he got through it,” said Susan Billy, director of operations at Ultra Health. “He did chemo and radiation, but it was because of cannabis that he was able to get through it without any side effects. And he is cancer free today.”

Tuesday morning, Bernalillo Mayor Jack Torres helped officially open a new, 5,000 square foot section of Ultra Health’s dispensary. They’ll be making smokeless products people never seen before in partnership with an Israeli pharmaceutical company called Panaxia.

“These are new certainly to the United States and for New Mexico,” said Ultra Health vice president of business development Leonard Salgado. “It’s a real big plus for them to be able to have access to these products not only for Albuquerque and Santa Fe, but certainly we want to reach out to the rural communities where access is very difficult.”
Some of these smokeless products include an inhaler and a sublingual tablet that you put under your tongue. Panaxia is helping bring technology that can accurately measure extraction.

“We’re going to actually know that this medicine is what it says it is 25 milligrams, it’s exactly 25 milligrams of THC,” Billy said. “It’s not a guessing game.”

The new products are 30 to 45 days from being available at Ultra Health. Billy said they’re best for people who have never smoked or never wanted to smoke.

“And they don’t have to be smoking around their children,” she said. “So it’s really good across the board for everyone.”