New Mexico cannabis, from the people inside it.
Mesilla Valley News is rooted in the practical side of New Mexico cannabis, especially the operators trying to stay afloat outside the national spotlight. Its Ask Chad Grassy Logic episodes move from dispensary shelves and medical cards to state politics, delivery logistics, education, and Texas customer realities.
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Mesilla Valley News is a New Mexico-centered cannabis and community conversation feed, with recent Ask Chad Grassy Logic episodes carrying most of the show's shape. The show is not polished industry theater. It sounds embedded. Conversations move at an easy pace, then suddenly land on a specific problem: a medical card holder who does not understand units, a dispensary near Texas watching event traffic, a courier business filling gaps between growers, manufacturers, retailers, and customers. The cannabis plant is present, but the larger subject is legitimacy. Guests keep circling the same pressure points: stigma, education, taxes, patient access, small operators, Texas politics, lounges, and the survival math of local businesses. JJ Holmes brings Loving Bud Dispensary in Lovington into focus through wellness, medical use, cross-state sales, and hopes for events. Nicole and Michelle push into medical cannabis education, strain logging, budtender conversations, and the confusion that still surrounds patient benefits. Judy Gallegos describes Stoner's Haven as transport infrastructure, both B2B across the state and B2C from dispensary to customer. Victoria Svitanovich connects cannabis to drug policy, prosecution experience, and the tension between state capitals and people on the ground. Eric Garcia brings a dual view from Grassroots and the mayor's office in Grants, New Mexico. His conversations tie cannabis lounges to safe consumption, patient space, and wider ideas about healing. Ashley Gonzalez broadens the map through Grass Gazette, events, clean-energy programs, reciprocity, and local outreach. A special conversation with Deb Holland moves into education, small business, voting, and public resources while still speaking directly to the cannabis community. The format is interview-first and locally textured. It tolerates tangents because the tangents often reveal the point. The show works best when cannabis policy becomes groceries, travel, pain, taxes, school resources, rodeos, parking lots, or a customer asking the wrong question at the counter. It is warm without being soft. It is casual without being empty. For listeners tracking New Mexico cannabis from the inside, Mesilla Valley News offers a practical, community-level record of an industry still figuring itself out.
Made for: For listeners interested in cannabis entrepreneurship, medical access, local policy, and the small-business realities of New Mexico's market. It especially fits people who want practical community perspective over national industry spin.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart through its local specificity: Lovington, Las Cruces, Albuquerque, Grants, Sunland, Texas, state rules, and small operators all matter. Its value is in the unvarnished details of how legalization feels on the ground.
Podcast by Mesilla Valley News
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Chad makes New Mexico's cannabis economy tangible through candid conversations about regulation, cultivation, patient access and day-to-day business decisions.
Chad turns conversations with cannabis operators and advocates into a ground-level account of New Mexico's developing market. His interviews connect dispensary economics with medical access, cultivation conditions, legalization, local government and competition near the Texas…
Chad's guests have better dispensary questions for you than how cheap the weed is.
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A conversational cannabis interview about retail traffic, medical use, and a Lovington shop built to stay open.
This installment keeps its focus on Chad's conversation with JJ Holmes, tracing his route into cannabis and the role of Loving Bud Dispensary in Lovington, New Mexico, along with LB Farms and its wholesale manufacturing work.
A loose Twitch-side dispensary chat about medical cannabis, patient questions, and tax confusion.
Grassy Logic stays centered on practical medical cannabis talk, with Nicole Self and Michelle guiding listeners through how patients can track strain effects, ask sharper questions, and clear up confusion around units and taxes.
A Grants mayor and Grassroots owner ties cannabis policy to patient access, local leadership and business survival.
Eric Garcia gives the episode its useful double lens: he runs Grassroots, has spent about 10 years in New Mexico cannabis through the medical era, and also serves as mayor of Grants.
A local cannabis discussion connecting lounge design, solar enrollment, and visitor information to everyday business reality.
New Mexico cannabis comes through as a practical local-business story as Chad speaks with Ashley Gonzalez of the Grass Gazette about what makes a lounge usable in everyday life.
A campaign conversation connects early literacy, school support, working families and New Mexico business concerns.
Hashtag Grassy Logic Bloopers keeps its governor's-race conversation with Deb Holland close to practical questions about education, work and opportunity in New Mexico.
A harvest-season check-in turns heat, airflow, and shade into practical growing lessons.
Chad and Daniel from Yendo Farms use a Halloween check-in to turn a long stretch of work into a grounded look at keeping a grow on track. Daniel has the worn-in perspective of someone who had been going non-stop for 31 days, and his best points stay close to what plants actually…
A Lovington cannabis operator weighs growth, patient access, and the business logic of a Texas border market.
JJ Holmes brings a grounded business lens to Lovington, New Mexico's cannabis market, where growth, patient advocacy, and a customer base shaped by nearby Texas all sit in the same frame.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
SaaS operators on scaling, pricing and AI, metrics included.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Chad hosts JJ Holmes, a former University of Colorado football player and owner of Loving Bud Dispensary in Lovington, New Mexico.
Chad interviews Andrew Brown from Carver Family Farm about his journey into cannabis cultivation, focusing on organic living soil practices and breeding genetics.
Chad interviews Priscilla Smith and Dr.
Chad hosts Daniel from Yendo Farms on a Halloween episode of Ask Chad Grassy Logic.
Chad hosts Andre Gutierrez of OG Farms, who runs a pecan-and-pomegranate food forest in Anthony, New Mexico, and holds a two-year USDA contract for two free workshops a month.
JJ Holmes starts with the jump.
Chad opens on Twitch.
This episode features an interview with Judy Gallegos, owner of Stoner's Haven, discussing her cannabis courier business that provides B2B and B2C transport services across the state.
Chad interviews Victoria Svitanovich, a former prosecutor turned cannabis law attorney, about her transition from enforcing drug laws to advocating for reform based on her experiences with flawed drug policies.
Chad and Gino discuss a recent cannabis product recall in New Mexico due to THC dosing issues and explain the benefits of medical cannabis cards for higher potency limits.
Chad talks with Eric Garcia, the owner of Grassroots and mayor of Grants, New Mexico, about a cannabis market Garcia says is moving from repeated 'rock bottom' pricing into a mature phase.
Chad welcomes Ashley Gonzalez from the Grass Gazette.
Mesilla Valley News' Hashtag Grassy Logic Bloopers features Chad interviewing Deb Holland about the New Mexico governor's race and cannabis policy.
This episode features an interview with Miggy from Legalization News Network discussing cannabis legalization news, policy developments like rescheduling and the Farm Bill, and his long-term activism perspective.
This episode features an interview with Caitlin Cerner, owner of Grey Moon, a micro cannabis business in Jal, discussing her company's operations, expansion plans, and the competitive market.
Chad interviews Daniel from Yendo Farms about his journey from personal growing to running a consulting service, with a Halloween-themed twist.