"The only viable path towards cannabis reform is Obama." Allwx, Are you kidding me? If this were the case, then why hasn't he done something about this issue before now? Why does he allow the DOJ to continue with their crackdown in CA, CO and other MMJ states? If it weren't for the plant limits in place, they would be cracking down on NM. Those producers that choose to expand to the 150 plant limit are risking a mandatory jail sentence of 5 years! For providing medicine to patients. Few candidates have ever kept their campaign promises. After being elected Obama told the DOJ there were better uses for their resources than going after the MMJ community. If people like Steve DeAngelo and Harborside would stay off the boob tube, maybe the DOJ would leave the dispensaries alone too. The "nonprofit" dispensaries in CA are making a fortune....on the backs of ill people. Everyone is entitled to reasonable compensation, but the millions being made in CA is obscene.

Many of us are one issue voters. Whatever effects us personally and which candidate speaks in agreement to what we want or need....that is the candidate that will receive our vote. Obama spoke of "change". Well, we got change allright....in our pockets. Hopefully, the American voters will wake up and see what I have said all along....Obama is another Carter and the only reason he was elected was because the liberal media convinced the voters that the Republicans were evil and they had had control for too many years and it was time for a Democrat. That Bush 'stole' the election and even though he was voted in for a second term, he was evil incarnate. We no longer have a government "of the people, by the people, for the people". We have elected orators who speak pretty but haven't got a clue as to what their constituents really want or don't care. When thousands of people sign a petition asking that cannabis be legalized similar to alcohol, or to reschedule, and the White House comes back with the same old rhetoric, it proves to me they are liars and really do not care what the PEOPLE want.

We need to continue to educate as many people as we can about the medicinal benefits of cannabis and perhaps once every state has a medical cannabis program, the feds will finally reschedule. No matter what liar...oops...party, is in the oval office. I pray that a compassionate candidate makes it to the White House...regardless of his party affiliation.

If every representative and senator had at least one family member that was so ill they needed the benefits of cannabis this would be a nonissue. Every person alive on 09/11 could have PTSD and qualify for the program in NM.

There was so much negative information regarding Susana Martinez and what she would "do" to our program. All seems to be continuing on the status quo thus far. I expect it will continue the same for the duration of her term.
CFO Reviewed by CFO on . NM Politics & The NMMCP I've just returned from a visit to the round house as the New Mexico legislature prepares for their thirty-day special session. Working with the DPA, the New Mexico Medical Cannabis Coalition and various other entities surrounding the cannabis industry, we were able to meet with a great many legislators to discuss our successful medical cannabis program here in New Mexico. We wanted to update legislators on the progress of the program and to get a feel for how the level of support may have Rating: 5