CCD Issues Embargo At Shared Manufacturing Facility
On March 20, 2026, the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department issued Embargo Order 2026-003 against Rescue Refinery, LLC in Albuquerque, restricting movement of all identified inventory during an active investigation.
The issue traces back to August 2, 2025, when the company’s license (MICB-2024-0087) expired with no renewal filed. Without an active license, possession of product became unlawful under state law.
Office Space
The facility was a shared manufacturing space used by multiple operators, including brands like Hints Mints and Simply Sweet Gummies. In early January 2026, the property owner took possession of the building and changed access, effectively locking operators out while product remained inside. On January 15, 2026, regulators attempted an inspection but were unable to access the site.
On February 3, 2026, legal counsel for the property owner contacted regulators requesting guidance on how to handle the remaining inventory. A coordinated destruction event was conducted on February 26, 2026, where other licensed operators cleared their products under regulatory oversight. Rescue Refinery did not participate, and its inventory remained onsite.
On March 16, 2026, enforcement conducted an onsite inspection and confirmed approximately 7,182 units of infused liquid products (30ml bottles), totaling roughly 56 gallons, still stored at the premises. With no valid license tied to the inventory, there was no legal pathway to transfer or sell it, triggering the embargo.
Under the embargo, all product must be tagged, secured, and cannot be moved, sold, or destroyed without state approval. Potential outcomes include release, seizure, or court-ordered destruction depending on the investigation.
Spring Cleaning
Nobody talks about this part when things are moving. Destruction isn’t theoretical—it’s labor, coordination, and cost. It takes time, oversight, and someone willing to show up and sign off on killing their own inventory.
When it’s your product, you make the call. When it’s not—when it’s tied to a dead license, a missed deadline, or a tenant who’s already halfway out the door—it lingers. It gets pushed. It waits.
That’s what happened here. A coordinated destruction event cleared out everyone else. These bottles stayed. Not because they couldn’t be destroyed—but because no one stepped in to own it; over, and over, and over….
This isn’t about bad product. It’s about unfinished business. Inventory that outlived the people responsible for it.
There’s a quiet lesson here. Compliance doesn’t fail all at once. It slips little by litte, and compounds quick—a missed renewal, a missed rent, a missed inspection—and then one day you’re standing outside a locked building while your product sits inside, waiting for someone else to deal with it.
The last people you want that being is the State.
Check on your skeletons, before they check on you.
