You have navigated the difficult application process, got your license to legally grow cannabis for sale, begged, borrowed and used all your savings to have the investment money needed to grow cannabis on the family farm down in the Land of Enchantment South.
Unless you’re beyond the reach of the checkpoints, the state’s legalization equity goals and legal possession laws are meaningless if the Feds catch you with any amount of cannabis as you head north, even with a medical card.
In the south, communities of color and those most affected by the country’s war on drugs live in a part of the state that isn’t allowed the freedom the rest of the state has.
In April, people from Arizona will be able to come over on that side of the state and people from Texas will be able to come over on that side of the state and purchase cannabis.
“Until there’s a federal program, whatever that may be, there are just going to have to be acceptable losses.
As cannabis is illegal at the federal level, businesses that are operating legally within New Mexico can be stopped while transporting their product or the income from sales through any federally-run checkpoints.
“Cannabis companies from outside the state are eyeing New Mexican companies that have overburdened themselves with complex logistics in terms of money flow and trying to transport products around the state.
attorneys not to enforce federal marijuana laws in states that have legalized the drug except in cases where non-enforcement would undermine other priorities.
“Until there’s legislative change at the federal level, if you’re growing in southern New Mexico, to be safe you’ll have to sell to southern stores and southern facilities.
Because there’s so much cultivation capacity in the South, it could create a real price war for the wholesalers and the micro-producers.