You Broke It, You Bought It: Why Oasis Cannabis Co. Isn't Paying for the CCD's Mistakes
CCD's retesting policy explained: chaos in a clipboard, confusion on a forklift.
If you've ever had someone spill your drink and then charge you for the mop, welcome to our world. Here at Oasis Cannabis Co., we’ve seen a lot of wild things in the New Mexico cannabis space, but nothing quite compares to the high-stakes comedy that is the CCD's Bluebonnet retesting fiasco.
Let’s set the stage. Imagine paying for a test that the government approved, selling your products in full compliance, and then months later being told that the lab was sketchy, the test might be no good, and now you need to either retest everything or destroy it. Oh, and did we mention? You still can’t legally move the product to retest it. No manifest. No options. Just vibes and chaos.
Welcome to Cannabis Compliance: Cirque du Bureaucracy
The Setup: When Labs Go Rogue
The Cannabis Control Division licensed a lab called Bluebonnet Labs. This lab, for over two years, issued Certificates of Analysis (COAs) for hundreds, if not thousands, of cannabis products in the state. Retailers, including yours truly, used those tests to get compliant products on shelves.
Then, in late 2024, things started to smell funkier than a jar of week-old GDP. CCD finally inspected the lab and allegedly found, brace yourself, no equipment. Like, none. Not even a broken Erlenmeyer flask for show. According to CCD’s own filings, Bluebonnet had been mailing samples to Texas. Not test results, the actual weed. Out of state. You know, that little federal felony type of no-no.
So what did CCD do? Well, eventually they shut the lab down. But not before months of silence, during which retailers like us continued to purchase product tested by Bluebonnet, in good faith, using CCD’s own compliance systems.
The Plot Twist: Welcome to the Retesting Maze
Fast-forward to February 2025. The CCD, empowered by a court order against Bluebonnet (but not against us, mind you), put all Bluebonnet-tested products into administrative hold. This meant we couldn’t sell them. Couldn’t move them. Couldn’t manifest them for testing. But we had to get them retested
We couldn’t help but ask: How do you test something you can’t legally move? That’s like asking us to get a haircut at a barber shop we’re banned from entering. CCD’s response? “Use the R&D testing process.”
Except… R&D tests are not compliance tests
They don’t show up in the BioTrack system
They don’t authorize products for sale
They aren’t allowed on product labels
So naturally, CCD made them the center of their product release process
We wish we were kidding
CCD's Logic: Kafka Would Be Proud
The CCD claims this isn’t a recall. That would imply liability, after all. Instead, it’s a court-ordered safety measure, except the court only named Bluebonnet Labs. We weren’t part of the lawsuit. We weren’t notified. We didn’t get a hearing. Yet suddenly our inventory was locked like Fort Knox, with no recourse except:
Pay to retest it (illegally, technically)
Destroy it
We’re being told, “We’re not making you destroy your inventory, we’re just saying you can’t sell it unless you jump through flaming legal loopholes that may violate state law.”
That’s not a business decision That’s not regulatory compliance That’s CCD doing a cannonball off the high dive and expecting us to clean up the splash zone
Administrative Hold: The Voxel Edition – Where Logic Goes to Die
When the CCD locks your inventory but forgets to unlock common sense.
You Broke It. You Bought It.
Here’s the truth: we followed every rule. We tested our product. We relied on CCD-approved labs. We used the state’s own BioTrack system to track it all. And now we’re the ones paying for their oversight failure?
We don’t think so
If you hire a food inspector who rubber-stamps bad meat, do you bill the butcher?
No? Then why should cannabis retailers be treated differently?
Regulatory Comedy, Consumer Tragedy
While the CCD tries to juggle their enforcement logic, real businesses are hemorrhaging money. Inventory is aging out. Compliance teams are bogged down in circular logic. Products are drying out in quarantine like forgotten leftovers in a fridge full of health department citations
And consumers? They’re paying the price too. Less variety. Delays. Products they loved, gone. Because someone at CCD decided that public safety meant treating law-abiding retailers like the problem
We’re Not Playing That Game
At Oasis Cannabis Co., we’re not going to break the law to comply with an agency workaround that was duct-taped together in a panic. We’re not going to pretend it’s “voluntary” to destroy tens of thousands of dollars in inventory just because the CCD says so
And we’re not paying for their lunch
We didn't cause this mess. We didn’t fail to inspect Bluebonnet. We didn’t greenlight a lab with no equipment. That’s on them. As our legal counsel rightly said:
“You broke it. You bought it.”
Our Promise to the Cannabis Community
We believe in safety. We believe in compliance. And we believe in accountability from everyone, including the regulators
We’ll keep fighting to protect our rights and yours. Because no one should have to choose between breaking the law or lighting their inventory on fire to clean up a mess they didn’t make
So if you see us with fewer SKUs or hear we’ve destroyed product, it wasn’t because we messed up. It’s because we refuse to pay for someone else’s mistake
And you shouldn’t either
