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Stuff you need to know, 1.7.24

“Marijuana Buyers From Texas Fuel a ‘Little Amsterdam’ in New Mexico”
by J. David Goodman/photographs by Erin Schaff, The New York Times
January 7, 2024

Sunland Park, New Mexico, just across the state border from El Paso, is booming with new cannabis dispensaries built to serve hordes of customers from Texas, where the sale of marijuana is still illegal. But will the boom be of lasting benefit to this community of 17,000, where nearly one in three households live in poverty?

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Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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Peter Lawton

January 7, 2024 / 6:16 pm Reply

Any Texan with half a brain who wants a real education for their children, tolerance for their lifestyles, and professional maternity care is coming to Mexico. It sounds like they are also crossing the border to get some high quality weed and relax after all of that Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton sh…t show!

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