I live in Santa Teresa, basically a suburb of west El Paso. The cartels have completely destroyed Juarez. There is no brick to be found. The Azteca gang that ran the drug market is decimated.

The people of El Paso, have always had a strong connection with Los Angles. Many hispanic families are spread between the two cities. Now that the Axteca's are out of the pictures, the LA/EP family ties has allowed local folks to bring mass amounts of Cali chronic into the region. The city is flooded with it.

My problem comes from not being able to get any reliable connection with the NM producers. I can make a phone call and have bud that is equal in price, after tax and shipping. It is also much stronger than any of the bud I have gotten from any of the producers. I have only been able to get two orders filled by NewMexican. Also living this far south means that I have to not only pay the $20 shipping fee, but I have to do a 70 mile round trip to Las Cruces and back to pick it up.

So you see my dilemma. I can get better bud with no hassle at all, if I buy off the street, well not the street my guy brings it to my home. If I try to stay within the rules of the program I smoke nothing.

I'm not just addressing this problem as my own, but wonder how things are going to work when we still have five producers and 3 to 4 thousand card holders.

What will the state do if people that have never smoked bud or had any dealing with the black market start to get arrested for just trying to maintain their meds.

Now it is easy to say just don't smoke any unless you get it legal, but that would mean I really can't start any kind of reduction of my antideprents. So you are damned if you do and damned if you don't.
WestMesa Reviewed by WestMesa on . Is the New Mexico Med cannabis program creating a new class of criminal I have PTSD, and I got on the program to use cannabis so I could cut down on antidepressants and eventually stop taking them all together. The trouble is, for me to do this I must be confident that I have a good reliable steady supply of meds. Many people are in my same position. With such low product output by the program, most are forced to buy from the black market. I have had older folks who use meds for pain ask me if I can find them some street cannabis. Without quick action by Rating: 5