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 and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency.
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The suit, which claims violations of due process rights, demands a jury trial and an order that federal authorities return all seized property or its “equivalent wholesale/retail value.”
Seizures of state-regulated marijuana
Homeland Security has long operated inspection stations along interstate highways in New Mexico, where agents search vehicles for contraband and check the immigration status of drivers and passengers.
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