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Quote Originally Posted by BuddingHopeNM
As far as a lawsuit weakening the program, I never thought of it that way. But like I said, the patients are the ones who matter. If a lawsuit slows the program down or shifts resources from the patients, I don't like that. Also, this idea that these people are big money 'venture capitalists' I don't believe. Of all licensed producers I have met, none of them seem to be that type.

Just putting my 2 grams in.
First , a well thought out post. I liked it. The state effectively kept undesirable elements out of the program by restricting board membership to New Mexico residents. Colorado did the same thing recently, you can't open a dispensary if you haven't lived in the state for a few years prior to the rule coming in effect( not sure on the exact wording of their rules, but they want to keep investors from out of state opening chains of dispensaries in all states where they have MCP). Colorado has effectively shut the door against folks moving there simply to open a dispensary

You can count on that "certain someone" being out of the office or tied up on matters pertaining to this lawsuit, which isn't going to help any new patient permits to be issued or any other tasks accomplished. It will certainly also divert monetary resources ( in the way of state attorney time) to defend against the suit.

The phrase "venture capitalist" was in reference to the person mentioned in a KOB news article.

If you take a look at the latest patient stats @ the DOH site, you'll see that quite a few have personal production permits. The state will easily make a case with the new plant limits and the number of personal production license, the needs of patients are being met.

What this lawsuits wants is one thing what they are going to get may be some new regs...:

"sorry, we're rejecting your application as there are already x dispensaries within a 10 mile radius" or "x county already has enough production"..or "board members have to reside in the county of production..or some other draconian in your face go away type of ruling. These regs can just be implemented. They do not need a vote...Just like increasing the plant limit to 150 or closing the producer applications for a few months

Anybody have a look at the Arizona regualtions? You can't even get a personal production license if you live within "x" miles of a producer

This lawsuit will have an unexpected result. I'll be writing to the assigned judge telling him if they donā??t like how the program is being run, tough nuts. It's a pointless suit imho. The state cleary stated that an application isn't assured to be approved.

I was curious how the choices on producers was being made, but I didn't go out and start suing the state to get a permit.

I am wondering how the state is going to address this so called "wall of silence" as funding for new staff won't be arriving anytime soon.

I'll bet a geographical zone will be established at some point..and counties may start implementing more stringent zoning and bvusiness license fees to keep things from spiraling out of control.

The increase in the application fee doesn't seemed to have slowed anything down, but I'll bet a number of producers don't come up with renewal fees if they have a crop failure or two.

anyhow..that's my 2 ml:-)