New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham says she was expressing her “frustration with federal interference” in her state’s regulated cannabis industry when she criticized the head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in audio leaked last week.
“They’re saying they’re worried about fentanyl, so they’re taking all of our cannabis,” Lujan Grisham said.
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Lujan Grisham was in Washington, D.C., for meetings with Homeland Security Secretary Alex Mayorkas after a series of incidents in which employees of marijuana businesses licensed in New Mexico were stopped and detained by Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Half-dozen incidents, minimum
At least six such stops have been reported to state regulators by licensed New Mexico marijuana businesses, according to an MJBizDaily report, with CBP seizing at least
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