Tag: New Mexico marijuana

NM marijuana firms sue federal agencies over ‘unlawful’ seizures

Eight licensed marijuana companies in New Mexico claim in a federal lawsuit that Border Patrol agents violated their constitutional rights when they seized more than $1 million worth of “state-legal cannabis products, cash, and other property” at interior checkpoints, court records show. The lawsuit was filed this week against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security […]

New Mexico cannabis regulators request more funding to ramp up enforcement

The Cannabis Control Division also requested more authority to enforce the cannabis regulations in the state. The umbrella agency that houses New Mexico’s Cannabis Control Division has formally requested a more than a half-million-dollar budget increase for the coming fiscal year to ramp up enforcement in the marijuana trade, which is reportedly rife with rulebreakers. […]