The Trump administration is refusing to return more than $1 million of marijuana seized from state-licensed New Mexico cannabis companies at interior Border Patrol checkpoints over the past year.
That’s the claim made in a lawsuit recently refiled in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico.
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Originally filed in October, the lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Customs and Border Protection Agency was refiled by eight state-licensed companies on Feb. 14, court records show.
The eight plaintiffs are:
Mesilla Valley Extracts, a licensed manufacturer in Las Cruces. Royal Cannabis, a licensed vertically integrated company that does business as Baked Chicken Farm. Baked Chicken operates a large-scale cultivation facility in a former poultry operation in Berino,
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