Chaparral woman cultivated marijuana, investigators say
Investigators allegedly found about 130 marijuana plants at the home of a woman with an expired permit to grow 16 marijuana plants, a law enforcement official tells ABC-7.
The woman, identified by a law enforcement official as 61-year-old Candice Wilson, lives at 113 Irma road.
Wilson’s medicinal marijuana permit expired in July, investigators said. An ABC-7 source originally said her permit had expired in September.
A deputy investigating another crime in Chaparral noticed the plants in the woman’s property. Investigators plucked the plants from the ground and loaded them onto a pickup Friday morning.
Wilson will be charged with distribution of marijuana, a fourth degree felony, officials said.
A neighbor who knows the woman told ABC-7 she relies on medical cannabis to relieve pain. The information provided by the neighbor has not been officially confirmed.
The New Mexico Department of Health states on its website: “A personal production license holder may possess no more than four mature cannabis plants (flowering) and twelve immature plants (non-flowering and male plants). A qualified patient may also possess no more than 230 units of usable cannabis within a three-month period. A unit is defined as one gram of dried usable cannabis plant material, or 0.2 grams (200 milligrams) of THC in a cannabis-derived product.”
