Marijuana Second report on this reasonably worrying improvement…
As MM says, everyone seems to be perplexed
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Federal officers have seized lots of of 1000’s of {dollars} price of marijuana from state-licensed hashish companies in New Mexico in latest weeks — detaining trade employees in what seems to be a localized escalation enforcement of nationwide prohibition even because the federal authorities has largely avoided interfering with the implementation of state legalization legal guidelines in recent times.
New Mexico marijuana corporations report that greater than a dozen U.S Customs and Border Safety (CBP) seizures, notably at inland checkpoints across the Las Cruces space, are a comparatively new phenomenon. Because the sale of marijuana for adults was launched within the state in 2022, operators say they’ve typically been in a position to transport their merchandise to testing amenities and retailers with out incident.
Beginning about two months in the past, nevertheless, the company apparently took a extra proactive strategy to imposing the federal ban, seizing lots of of kilos of hashish at checkpoints throughout the state. CBP is ready to perform its actions inside 100 miles of the US border.
“There are lots of actually profitable vital hashish growers and hashish growers working south of these checkpoints,” Ben Lewinger, government director of the New Mexico Hashish Chamber of Commerce, instructed Marijuana Second. “Mainly, each highway you’ll be able to take from the south to the north a part of the state, it’s important to undergo one in every of these checkpoints – and it simply bifurcates the trade and makes it unimaginable for individuals within the southern a part of the state. they bring about their merchandise anyplace within the heart or north of the state.”
CBP has made not less than 13 stops and seizures of authorized marijuana merchandise from the state since February, Lewinger stated, including that “I wouldn't be shocked if it's twice that quantity.”
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Federal officers out of the blue seize marijuana from state-licensed companies, leaving trade reeling
