New Mexico Cannabis Business Loses License for Illegally Obtaining Cannabis for Retail Purposes
New Mexico Cannabis Business Loses License for Illegally Obtaining Cannabis for Retail Purposes
New Mexico regulators have revoked the license of an Albuquerque cannabis business and ordered them to pay nearly $300,000 in fines after finding that the company illegally obtained cannabis and improperly transported it, KOB4 reports. Golden Roots, which does business as Cannabis Revolution Dispens
I swear i'm not just going to post news stories about New Mexico cannabis. When I start a winter grow, i'll make sure to post content about that.
According to regulators, Golden Roots requested to enter fully-grown, harvested, and dried plants into its system just two months after receiving their licenses, which tipped off the state Cannabis Control Division (CCD), who said plants usually take longer than two months to reach maturity.
This is incredibly stupid. Every plant is scanned in from seedling to harvest. They were going to get caught.
Okay, but also, who care if they bring in outside marijuana.
In general I don't care. The issue is this: the recreational cannabis legalization bill requires licensed growers. Licensed growers have to jump through all sorts of hoops to get said licenses. I know one who had to get up in front of his community and convince them that his use of water for cannabis would be a net benefit for the area he lives in.
Unlicensed growers don't have any of those restrictions. They could have grown that cannabis off of tap water. They don't have to invest in all the tracking equipment, or the security and what not. They didn't jump through the hoops. So that outside cannabis has kind of an unfair advantage in a saturated growers market. Hell, that cannabis could have come from out of state. Out of state cannabis would bring the wrong kind of attention from the Feds.
I'm anti regulation, but currently a regulated cannabis market is the world we live in, so those are the rules we have to play by.