A cannabis grower is accusing a state of New Mexico employee of destroying its plants by accidentally flooding them with E. coli-tainted water via a centuries-old irrigation canal in a lawsuit filed last month.

Albuquerque Cannabis Corp. is requesting $442,000 in damages from the state after a supervisor at Los Luceros Historic Site in Rio Arriba County allegedly left the gate open to an acequia during irrigation in August 2023, allowing more than 650,000 gallons of water to flood the company's adjacent property, destroying 850 cannabis plants and four greenhouses' worth of equipment.

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