FILE - Dineh Benally poses for a photograph before a Navajo Nation presidential forum at a tribal casino outside Flagstaff, Ariz., Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Chinese workers allege they were lured to northern New Mexico under false pretenses and forced to work 14 hours a day trimming marijuana on the Navajo Nation where cultivating the plant is illegal, according to a lawsuit … [Read more...] about Chinese immigrant workers sue over forced labor at illegal marijuana operation on Navajo land
ALBUQUERQUE
Portrait of a social equity cannabis partnership
ALBUQUERQUE — Mary Jean Garcia and her business partners sold their cars and personal belongings, dipped into savings and emptied retirement accounts to open La Tiendita de Motita, a cannabis dispensary in Albuquerque’s South Valley, the rough-and-tumble neighborhood they grew up in. The former Albuquerque teacher, along with three of the four other women, quit their jobs as … [Read more...] about Portrait of a social equity cannabis partnership
