ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico cannabis regulators on Tuesday withdrawed the licenses of 2 growing operations in a rural county for many offenses and have imposed a $1 million fine versus each service.
One of the companies — Native American Agricultural Development Co. — is linked to a Navajo entrepreneur whose marijuana farming operations in northwestern New Mexico were robbed by federal authorities in2020 The Navajo Department of Justice likewise tooklegalactionagainst Dineh Benally, leading to a court order stopping those operations.
A group of Chinese immigrant employees takenlegalactionagainst Benally and his associates — and declared they were enticed to northern New Mexico and required to work long hours unlawfully cutting cannabis on the Navajo Nation, where growing the plant is prohibited.
In the notification made public Tuesday by New Mexico’s Cannabis Control Division, Native American Agricultural Development was implicated of surpassing the state’s plant count limitations, of not tracking and tracing its stock, and for producing hazardous conditions.
An e-mail message lookingfor remark on the accusations was not rightaway returned by Benally. David Jordan, an lawyer who represented him in the earlier case, did not return a phone message Tuesday.
The other company to have its license withdrawed was Bliss Farm, likewise situated in rural Torrance County within miles of Benally’s operation. State authorities stated the 2 companies, east of Albuquerque, are not linked in any method.
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