Medical Marijuanas Catch-22
When medical marijuana is legal statewide but illegal under federal law, things get tricky for patients.
With 71 interior Border Patrol checkpoints—33 of which are permanent—other medical marijuana patients are facing the same predicament.
Once a week, 50-year-old Raymundo Marrufo drives 22 miles from Deming, New Mexico to the state’s second largest city, Los Cruces. It’s the medical marijuana dispensary that brings him there, the closest place to his home where he can fill a prescription for cannabis to treat PTSD.
The drive isn’t bad, a straight shot down a desert highway in Southwest New Mexico, but it lands him in the middle of a Border Patrol checkpoint. There he waits in a line full of cars to be questioned. Some of the ones he’s asked (“Do you have proof of citizenship?”) are easy. Others, like this one, are not: “Do you have any illegal drugs?”
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