well things are about to get dicey for the program. A venture captialist, who no doubt spent 100k setting up a grow operation before a license was issued is now suing the state since they are not approving everybody who applies.

sure enough when the application fee was $100 everybody and his mom who ever stuck a seed in dirt thought they could meet the requirements for producer permit. I found a number of application on the web which were carbon copies of poorly writen applications with just some name and location changes. Now it looks like big money will be spent to get some folks into this business.

BIOMED v DOH

The producer I'm on board with spent over a year tweeking the application before the state finally approved. and I was told that not a nail was driven in the grow room until the day the approval was given. Plenty of money was spent on the facility, not to mention lots of time working with the DOH to hoepfully get approved. Approvals are not assured is a paraphrase of the application. it was all up to the judgement to a single individual. The secretary of the DOH.

now this venture captial guy, who likley has a complete facility ready to grow is trying to force the states hand.

this will likely cause huge problems since the DOH raised the app fee to reduce the number of bs applications needing to be processed and implemented a huge renewal fee starting this year to fund the infrastructure needed to manage just 25 producers. We don't need 100 do we?..maybe we do..with one on every streetcorner in SantaFe..and next thing you know the feds will start sniffing around.

in short, this lawsuit has the potential to simply shut down the program since to manage over 100 producers is going to take money the DOH simply doesn't have. It will be simpler to mire the renewal process and let all current producers licneses expire imagine how much money it's going to cost to deal with this lawsuit

a venture captialist ( according to KOB news)..these are NON-PROFIT companies you dingbats. who's investing?