How long until NM DOH MCP approval?

[alfonso2002]

Yea the last advisory board meeting was to have discussed the matter of plant count but it ended early. Anyway one of the board members had left anyway.The 4 plant count is alright if you have an outdoor grow but indoors is another thing all together.I think more than the plant count we need to get the amount of product you can have changed 6 oz.s is just too low I think more like 1lb that way if you do an outdoor grow you can have for the whole year.It is just too expensive to grow indoors.

[ScaredasHell]

I agree re the 6 oz. limit - especially given one county (Marin???) in CA allows 4 lbs. per patient.

[CFO]

I agree re the 6 oz. limit - especially given one county (Marin???) in CA allows 4 lbs. per patient.

No wonder the feds are cracking down in CA! 4 Lbs for personal use? Anyway...I suggest all of us patients and our families start writing letters to the Secretary of Health and our legislators. The Statute is expected to be opened in order to permanently allocate the fees generated from MCP to the DOH. This is the time for any changes to be made. Increased amount of finished product and longer period between license renewal for the patients for certain conditions (permanent card for 'uncureable' conditions, bi-annual for others). Some things can be changed through the rules and regulations as they were last December. Other things have to be changed in the Statute. If the newspaper articles are correct, when the Act was written, Legislatures expected a minimal number of patients. Not the 5000+ applications received to date.

[alfonso2002]

CFO your making sense again. LOL but you might think 4 lbs might be a lot but if you are making" THE CURE" you need lots of product and not just leftovers.And your on the money with the NEED to change the renewal time frame It should be at least every 2 years I think it should be more like our drivers license every 4 years or permanent.You say" Legislatures expected a minimal number of patients" How can that be if PTSD is one of the conditions.There Is no one out there that has not had one of those episodes in there life. And then there is chronic pain. As a young person I for one though I could do anything and did do it as a result sustained injury's that NOW I am paying for. I don't think I am that far different than everyone else. So what I am trying to say is that there is no reason for someone that wants to get in the program not to be able to.

[ScaredasHell]

Yes I love the idea of a Permanent card - had my condition since 1984 and if anything it just gets worse! Why should I / we have to re-up every year!!!!!!

Not1bitscared

[CFO]

Hi Alfonso. When the statute was written, PTSD was NOT one of the approved conditions. It was added after one of the subsequent medical advisory meetings. I would have to re-read the statute to see what the original conditions were, but I recall Epilepsy, MS, ALS, HIV/AIDS, cancer, and a few others. I would have to pull up the statute and too lazy to do so. Sooooo....without the PTSD and chronic pain.....how many patients would there be? Again, could look it up, but too lazy tonight! LOL

[alfonso2002]

Not a big deal what were the first intentions of the act. As all things they change sometimes for the better sometimes for the worst.But it is what it is.We have to learn to roll with the punches.

[InsuranceGuy]

Here you go CFO... As of 8-29-11

Active
3981
Bernalillo
1692
Applying
3
Catron
10
Deceased
18
Chaves
73
Denied
3
Cibola
35
Inactive
1227
Colfax
34
Withdrawn
6
Curry
37
Total
5238
De Baca
6
Doña Ana
400
Caregivers
Count
Eddy
67
Active
106
Grant
106
Deceased
1
Guadalupe
6
Inactive
73
Harding
1
Withdrawn
4
Hidalgo
10
Total
184
Lea
32
Lincoln
99
Qualifying Condition
Count
Los Alamos
28
PTSD
1688
Luna
26
Chronic Pain
1250
McKinley
38
Cancer
562
Mora
40
Painful Peripheral Neuropathy
386
Otero
70
HIV/AIDS
236
Quay
23
Intractable Nausea/Vomiting
207
Rio Arriba
163
Multiple Sclerosis
194
Roosevelt
11
Spinal Cord Damage with Intractable Spasticity
175
Roswell
1
Epilepsy
151
San Juan
247
Glaucoma
94
San Miguel
178
Severe Anorexia/Cachexia
79
Sandoval
367
Inflammatory autoimmune-mediated Arthritis
73
Santa Fe
841
Crohn's Disease
65
Sierra
134
Hep C Under Treatment
52
Socorro
45
Hospice Care
17
Taos
178
ALS
6
Torrance
53
Union
4
Inactives Qualifying Condition
Count
Valencia
183
PTSD
284
Cancer
216
Chronic Pain
197
Painful Peripheral Neuropathy
110
HIV/AIDS
96
Multiple Sclerosis
70
Spinal Cord Damage with Intractable Spasticity
65
Epilepsy
45
Intractable Nausea/Vomiting
42
Glaucoma
25
Hep C Under Treatment
21
Severe Anorexia/Cachexia
17
Crohn's Disease
16
Inflammatory Autoimmune-mediated Arthritis
13
Hospice Care
7
ALS
3

License to Produce?
Count
Yes
2219
No
3019
Fee Paid (Tracking as of 1/25/10)
Count
Yes
1020
No
4218
County of Home Address
License to Produce?
Count
Bernalillo
Yes
673
Catron
Yes
8
Chaves
Yes
28
Cibola
Yes
16
Colfax
Yes
20
Curry
Yes
12
De Baca
Yes
5
Doña Ana
Yes
175
Eddy
Yes
31
Grant
Yes
48
Guadalupe
Yes
1
Harding
Yes
1
Hidalgo
Yes
3
Lea
Yes
23
Lincoln
Yes
60
Los Alamos
Yes
15
Luna
Yes
10
McKinley
Yes
15
Mora
Yes
20
Otero
Yes
34
Quay
Yes
11
Rio Arriba
Yes
61
Roosevelt
Yes
5
Roswell
Yes
1
San Juan
Yes
79
San Miguel
Yes
67
Sandoval
Yes
165
Santa Fe
Yes
343
Sierra
Yes
56
Socorro
Yes
25
Taos
Yes
90
Torrance
Yes
26
Union
Yes
2
Valencia
Yes
90
Bernalillo
No
1019
Catron
No
2
Chaves
No
45
Cibola
No
19
Colfax
No
14
Curry
No
25
De Baca
No
1
Doña Ana
No
225
Eddy
No
36
Grant
No
58
Guadalupe
No
5
Hidalgo
No
7
Lea
No
9
Lincoln
No
39
Los Alamos
No
13
Luna
No
16
McKinley
No
23
Mora
No
20
Otero
No
36
Quay
No
12
Rio Arriba
No
102
Roosevelt
No
6
San Juan
No
168
San Miguel
No
111
Sandoval
No
202
Santa Fe
No
498
Sierra
No
78
Socorro
No
20
Taos
No
88
Torrance
No
27
Union
No
2
Valencia
No
93

[allwx]

Finding this thread today, I decided to register to I could add to it. My wife has been on the program since the early days, she was around #400 I think. She's on her 2d renewal. I've been on it for now going into my second year, since they added auto-immune arthritic diseases to the list. We just got our renewals a couple of weeks ago. Both were about a month late, meaning they took two months from the time we mailed the apps to receiving our cards. We also grow, and received both cards at the same time.

Funny thing, two weeks after getting our cards, we got ANOTHER set of cards. Identical. In the first year, they sent us someone else's card and PPL cert. I'd be surprised if this sort of confusion isn't very common in the program. They must be horribly over-worked.

We haven't done much business with the non-profits. I feel a little bad about it, but no way could be afford to buy it at those prices, not with going thru a couple to three oz per month. So we grow. Usually only in winter months so we keep our heating bill down.

[alfonso2002]

Welcome allwx Nice that you are able to grow what you need. Don't feel bad about not having to buy your meds. Thats what it is all about for us patients.