Oct. 25—The border towns of Texico and Farwell are seeing new businesses built and proposed, based partly on laws that went into effect this year that make once-forbidden consumable products legal for sale and use.

In May, voters in Farwell approved alcoholic beverage sales inside city limits. Since then, four businesses have obtained liquor sales licenses from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission for sites in Parmer County: Lowe's grocery, Allsup's convenience store, Annie and Martha's Artisan Bakery and Godfather's Pizza, all in Farwell, and Cattle Guard LLC, which operates the Cattle Guard liquor store in Bovina.

In Texico, across the state line in New Mexico, where cannabis for recreational consumption became legal in January, there are now at least three retail cannabis dispensaries.

The first was the Vana Society's Weed Store located at 105 Wheeler, right at the state line, which received its license in February, state records show. Everest Apothecary, which received its retail cannabis license for Texico in March, is located at 202 State St., another Texico location that nearly abuts the state line. The Spaced Cannabinoid Co. has a location at 800 Wheeler, Texico, which was licensed in August.

Texico City Clerk Carolyn Johnson said the Spaced Cannabinoid Co. occupies the site of a former barber shop, and the Everest Apothecary used to be the Double Play Café.

In Farwell, a former Piggly Wiggly supermarket at Third and Avenue A will become a liquor store when owner Clint Cole, of Clovis, obtains the liquor license he applied for some months ago, he said.

The store, Cole said, will feature a full line of liquor, wine and beer.

Not all the new businesses in Farwell are based on permitting alcoholic beverage sales, however.

A new building being framed at Fourth Street and Avenue A will become a new site for Farwell Family Health Clinic, which is currently located at 301 Third St., Farwell, Amy Jacoby, a medical assistant at the clinic, confirmed on Monday.

Another new Farwell business, open since June, is the Cracked Bean Coffee Co., which sells espresso coffee, coffee beans and baked goods at 710 Ave. A, Farwell.

Tasha Friesen, a co-owner, said the coffee beans sold at the shop are home-roasted.

While Annie and Martha's Artisan Bakery and Godfather's Pizza has been doing business at 701 Avenue A in Farwell for years, it now has acquired a license to sell beer and wine on the premises, Donna Ratke, the owner said.

Since then, she said, the business has sponsored "free beer" nights and featured live music, but a remodeling project has been delayed, pending some repairs.

Ratke said she is happy to see some business growth in Farwell.

She and other Farwell businesses, she said, "are in it for the long haul."

Some growth, she said, fuels "the people's pride" in the city.