“This is why we don’t ram through legislation in a Special Session before anybody can spot problems with the bill because then we have stuff like this come out,” says Luke Niforatos, Vice-President of the advocacy group S.A.M. (Smart Approaches to Marijuana). “Your viewers should be very concerned about the fact that (the state is) not looking at the federal backgrounds of people applying for marijuana licenses in New Mexico. What this means is that right now, the state could be giving legal sanction to members of cartels,” Niforatos said.
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