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Commentator Walt Rubel shares his thoughts on checkpoints in our region adding to the conflict of state and federal laws.
COMMENTARY: I realize there are other issues higher on his priority list, but I hope President Joe Biden clarifies the federal government’s position on the enforcement of marijuana laws before legal sales begin here next year.
New Mexico was the 18th state to legalize adult marijuana use, and all of those states have a conflict with the federal government. But the situation in southern New Mexico is unique because of the Border Patrol checkpoints along all of our highways.
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Marchers protesting the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers block Central in Downtown on May 31. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Last summer, as the movement against racial injustice swept the country, officials in the Albuquerque Police Department asked the Drug Enforcement Administration for the assistance of special agents to do undercover operations and surveillance at protests, according to an investigative report from the nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington published on Friday.
The government watchdog group published emails from Kyle Williamson, the DEA’s special agent in charge at the El Paso division, to officials with the Department of Justice. It also published similar requests from police departments in Chicago and Philadelphia.
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