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    New Mexico to Grow Pot

    Law requires N.M. to grow its own pot By DEBORAH BAKER, Associated Press Writer

    New Mexico has a new medical marijuana law with a twist: It requires the state
    to grow its own.
    The law, effective Sunday, not only protects medical marijuana users from
    prosecution â?? as 11 other states do â?? but requires New Mexico to oversee a
    production and distribution system for the drug.
    "The long-term goal is that the patients will have a safe, secure supply that
    doesn't mean drug dealers, that doesn't mean growing their own," said Reena
    Szczepanski, director of Drug Policy Alliance New Mexico.
    The state Department of Health must issue rules by Oct. 1 for the licensing of
    marijuana producers and in-state, secured facilities, and for developing a
    distribution system.
    The law was passed in March and signed by Gov. Bill Richardson, who is running
    for the Democratic presidential nomination.
    Other states with medical marijuana laws are Alaska, California, Colorado,
    Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.
    Maryland's law doesn't protect patients from arrest, but it keeps defendants out
    of jail if they can convince judges they needed marijuana for medical reasons.
    Connecticut's governor vetoed a medical marijuana bill recently.
    The distribution and use of marijuana are illegal under federal law, and the
    U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2005 in a California case that medical marijuana
    users can be prosecuted.
    Faced with that dilemma, the health department has asked state Attorney General
    Gary King whether its employees could be federally prosecuted for running the
    medical marijuana registry and identification card program, and whether the
    agency can license marijuana producers and facilities.
    "The production part is unprecedented. ... No other state law does that," said
    Dr. Steve Jenison, who is running the program for the health department. "So
    we're trying to be very thoughtful in how we proceed."
    In the meantime, however, patients must obtain their own supplies.
    The state will immediately begin taking applications from patients whose doctors
    certify they are eligible for the program.
    Within weeks, approved patients â?? or their approved primary caregivers â?? would
    receive temporary certificates allowing them to possess up to six ounces of
    marijuana, four mature plants and three immature seedlings. That's enough for
    three months, the department says.
    The law allows the use of marijuana for specified conditions including cancer,
    glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and HIV-AIDS, as well as by some patients
    in hospice care.
    An eight-member advisory board of doctors could recommend that other conditions
    be added to the list.
    Martin Walker was diagnosed four years ago as HIV positive and uses marijuana to
    combat nausea and depression. He said he looks forward to being able to obtain
    the drug legally.
    "If there's a system in place that's going to allow me to do this treatment
    without having to break the law ... I'll just be able to sleep better at night,"
    said Walker, who runs HIV prevention and other outdoor-based adult health
    programs for the Santa Fe Mountain Center.


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    doctor G Reviewed by doctor G on . New Mexico to Grow Pot Law requires N.M. to grow its own pot By DEBORAH BAKER, Associated Press Writer New Mexico has a new medical marijuana law with a twist: It requires the state to grow its own. The law, effective Sunday, not only protects medical marijuana users from prosecution â?? as 11 other states do â?? but requires New Mexico to oversee a production and distribution system for the drug. "The long-term goal is that the patients will have a safe, secure supply that doesn't mean drug Rating: 5

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    New Mexico to Grow Pot

    Hey Key West Cathy, they need your expertise out here. Maybe you could do some consulting.......
    take care all
    Doctor G

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    New Mexico to Grow Pot

    sounds like good news

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    New Mexico to Grow Pot

    according to this new article from today's NORML news, New Mexico made a last-minute change, and is going to allow med-users to grow their own, instead ... NORML.ORG US NM: State To Let Patients Grow Their Own Pot :smokin:

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    New Mexico to Grow Pot

    heres an idea they could just distribute all the siezed pot they take from dealers to med users theirs probably plenty just sitting around waiting to be destroyed why not put it to good use

    -Bomb
    :rastasmoke:

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    New Mexico to Grow Pot

    Haaaaaaaaa...I'm consulting on my new 23' Mako Fishmaster w/a 200 4 stoke Suzuki motor....
    but thanks 4 askin! I sold the site about 8 months ago...book n all.........lovely.
    How u doin?
    CJ

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    New Mexico to Grow Pot

    From what I've read, New Mexico is going to be pretty strict about prescribing. Only severe cases, like gravely ill, from specific illnesses.

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    New Mexico to Grow Pot

    the norml article is wrong, there is no such provision in the bill that allows users to grow their own. All i see is new mexico officials being arrested for growing marijuana

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    New Mexico to Grow Pot

    Quote Originally Posted by Myth1184
    the norml article is wrong, there is no such provision in the bill that allows users to grow their own. All i see is new mexico officials being arrested for growing marijuana
    lmao, you'd like to think that wouldn't you..too bad you're completely wrong...yeah yeah, I know..medical marijuana's a scam, you can save your typing on that, because I already can see it coming...

    you and your feds are going to lose soon, the laws are changing more and more :thumbsup:

    high-ho, for MEDICAL MARIJUANA!!

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    New Mexico to Grow Pot

    It is a good day they anounced 7/1/07 you can have up to 6oz. at any time other than at home, and since they have now way do distubute or get cannibis form anywhere leagaly, they are going to alow us to grow, how much I have not herd yet. I go to the doctor this week to get registerd and he has been on my side of this subject since it passed in Feb. Hope everything goes good cause I wana grow.
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