Excellent input people!

Sec. Vigil is a political animal. Being appointed by our buddy Bill, he does what he is told to do. It is really not as much about a specific condition as it is numbers. They are not going to let too many different conditions get through until the producers get licenced. Too many people griping about no medicine already. It is like a baby growing...his head is a little big now but he will grow up O.K. Once the production problems are worked out and the DOH gets the process all debugged things will get better and they will be willing to admit more conditions.

It is up to the patients to organize and get involved. If the patients would show up at the pettitioning meeting for these hearings and show their faces more THAT would be best idea! Contact the Drug Policy Alliance, volunteer or some darn thing. If nothing else you can sit at your computer and write your senators and representatives once a week.
It all adds up!


The BEST solution for patients access is to grow. Plain and simple. Get self sufficient. Grow your own or get with folks who do and cooperate. This is the future! The idea that we should pay $300 oz for medicine is outrageous. The idea that the Cali or Colo type dispensary will survive here is not realistic either. Patients can and will organize to be self sufficient without public dispensaries or large producers. Patients with limited incomes need access to affordable medicine.

It is so easy to cultivate and growing a garden is so therapeutic that it is a two fer deal. Some people just cant do this or dont have a spot. Well, they should be allowed to join with patients who DO have a spot and cooperate. A community garden is perfect for an isolated community with no access and could even be hosted by the state in some circumstances. There are MANY good possibilities to be explored.

The medical patients in New Mexico are in a unique position. They are helping to write the law that is quickly becoming the model for a nation. I am certain that within the next three years you will be able to use MC for simple back pain or fatigue. There will be growers that will supply the demand for patients that are not growing, and patients will produce a large percentage of their own smoke independantly of producers.
bedrockbob Reviewed by bedrockbob on . Proposing New Conditions I am reading the Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act, and there are provisions that twice a year the Advisory Board to the DOH will conduct public hearings and evaluate pettitions for new conditions. I am proposing that a group of ladies pettition for menstrual problems. They HAVE to consider it, and they CANT refuse it. It opens the door for further expansion in a big way. It is a PERFECT use for cannabis and a political nightmare to deny. Marijuana is so good for general depression, Rating: 5