LAS CRUCES - A federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit by a Deming man who was seeking the right to carry his state-authorized medical marijuana through U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints without repurcussions.
Raymundo Marrufo of Deming, a patient in the New Mexico medical marijuana program, filed a lawsuit in the fall of 2015, alleging the Border Patrol was failing to adhere to a relatively new law that he claimed should allow him to travel through federal checkpoints without the risk of arrest or of his medical marijuana being confiscated. Marrufo's only source of the medical cannabis is in Las Cruces — about 60 miles from Deming. To travel between the two cities, he must pass through a federal checkpoint.
In the lawsuit, Marrufo sought an injunction on the agency to stop it from questioning people at checkpoints about whether they have medical marijuana.
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Raymundo Marrufo of Deming, a patient in the New Mexico medical marijuana program, filed a lawsuit in the fall of 2015, alleging the Border Patrol was failing to adhere to a relatively new law that he claimed should allow him to travel through federal checkpoints without the risk of arrest or of his medical marijuana being confiscated. Marrufo's only source of the medical cannabis is in Las Cruces — about 60 miles from Deming. To travel between the two cities, he must pass through a federal checkpoint.
In the lawsuit, Marrufo sought an injunction on the agency to stop it from questioning people at checkpoints about whether they have medical marijuana.
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