Producer Applicants' Lawsuit - Has it hurt or helped the patients?

[CosmicScorpio]

I am a renewing patient. According to my certified mail receipt, the DoH received my paperwork on September 6th. It is now Oct. 20th and all I have gotten is an email response of how they are understaffed and 5 weeks backlogged. I called someone reliable and got (what I thought) was very dangerous advice to buy from a producer anyway since I am already registered with some and they probably wouldn't even know I was lapsed. I am unwilling to jeopardize my spot in the program to do this. I have now been without for quite some time and my neuropathy wakes me up every night feeling like someone is plugging my leg into a light socket (spinal cord injury). It hurts so bad that I can do nothing but cry and squeeze my knee and beg it to stop. I believe making people wait this long is absolutely cruel. If you are understaffed and you know it....hire more staff. What can I do in the mean time? I have called and left messages and could send out an inquiry but then that would take another few months to even hear from anyone, not to mention add to their mail load which the email proclaims was sixty pieces of mail a day. What can I do?? I don't know anyone who would provide me with any medication like a friend or someone. I'm frustrated every day when it isn't in my mail box. It makes me sad.

[CFO]

So sorry for your pain! Our producer checks ID cards every purchase so you are right to be skeptical of the advice you received. It wouldn't be so much of jeopardizing your place in the program, the LNPP would be jeopardizing their license and I doubt any of them is willing to do so.

A friend sent her renewal in about the same time as yours and received it yesterday. So hang in there.

I heard they are hiring 5 people to get through the backlog. Everyone has to remember there is zero funding for this program. The staffing comes from the budget of the Harm Reduction program and it is probably draining their resources.

Keep checking your mail and I pray you will receive it soon.

Just one more example of how the lawsuit has deplenished the human and financial resources of the department and harmed the patients who need it so badly.

[ScaredasHell]

I think all the lawsuit did was make even more obvious, that 2 people with no budget cannot run an expanding program currently catering to around 5000 patients. Anyhow, like they say, you can't "unring a bell." I say let the lawsuit proceed, and maybe we'll figure out why some idiot was allowed to stink up the whole town of Roy ("I forgot to attach my carbon filters..."), while other, more sophisticated business plans were denied.

Scared

(Ducking for the scathing response from "Dominick in disguise!!!!!!!!!!")

[DenverRelief]

The same problem with an understaffed Department of Health happened here in Colorado.

Eventually they caught up with the applications, but for about 1 year the turn around was between 6 and 9 months.

No lawsuit was filed. They hired two-dozen temp. staffers to catch up.

It's funny because this year, everybody is renewing at the same time since they sent out a bunch of licenses at once, and they are backed up slightly again. Not nearly as bad though.

I wrote a blog about the green rush in Colorado. I hope other states can learn from how we did it.

Medical marijuana doesn't grow on trees The myth of making it big in Colorado

[ManOBuds]

Disco,
You said you got your card.Are you still scared?

[ScaredasHell]

M.O.B. - Think you may have confused me w/ "Disco Donaldson." Glad to hear he finally got his card.

Scared

[CosmicScorpio]

ScaredasHell, I think putting Scared at the end of all your posts might confuse some people since they might think you are actually feeling scared instead of thinking it's your username. Consider using your full user name as a signature to avoid confusion, I mean if you want to. Just a suggestion for ya.

[ScaredasHell]

OK I will do that. Gotta know the history, when I joined up I had previously had a CA card, but had no NM card for a while. Then I got the card and PPL. So now I'm stuck with a username that really doesn't make any sense anymore. I guess now, I'm just basically "scared" about the feds, a little, but not really.

(NOT) ScaredasHell

[CFO]

I think all the lawsuit did was make even more obvious, that 2 people with no budget cannot run an expanding program currently catering to around 5000 patients. Anyhow, like they say, you can't "unring a bell." I say let the lawsuit proceed, and maybe we'll figure out why some idiot was allowed to stink up the whole town of Roy ("I forgot to attach my carbon filters..."), while other, more sophisticated business plans were denied.

Scared

(Ducking for the scathing response from "Dominick in disguise!!!!!!!!!!")

Not happening! LOL. Just a reminder that no application has been "denied" as of yet.

Just curious...how do you hear these things? (Roy producer.). Am I just too far south? Wouldn't have known about the Clovis bust if it weren't for a friend.

[alfonso2002]

CFO it was in the news