Quote Originally Posted by ScaredasHell
If anyone cares, here's the link to the table: http://nmhealth.org/IDB/medicalcanna...08-29-2011.pdf .

Very troubling: 3981 "active" patients, 18 deceased, 1227 "inactive". So apparently almost 1 in 3 patients is "Inactive."

Scared
No reason to be scared. First, the inactive of the total represents about 20%.

My theory is that some of the applications for renewal are sitting at DOH waiting to be recorded. A family member and another friend sent their apps in back in July and are still waiting to hear. Of course when you ask someone to check you are told they have to submit a status request in writing and that just goes in the pile waiting with all the rest!! If the lawsuit would go away then the few DOH staff members assigned to our program would be able to get back to doing their job. The patients are supposed to come first. Someone should file a motion to dismiss the lawsuit so the patients can get their cards.

Additionally, I think that because some patients can only afford the brick and purchasing from anyone other than the LNPPs is illegal then they don't need the card and are going back to the way it was before the MCP was established. Sad, but true. Some doctors refuse to sign the certification forms. So the patient then needs to find a new doctor who will do so and that costs more. So, if it costs more to do things legally, and there isn't the money, human nature is such that people will return to prior ways rather than pay more. Even though the medicinal quality is so much better than street.