Now it's 60 days from your application - it is supposed to be 30. But everyone I know on the program, has gotten certified within 60 days since the Board of Health hired more staff. I would go for it if I were you. A recent court case made it easier to qualify too. NM went from 16,000 patients to over 60,000 patients in a year. They are processing thousands of applications each month and will probably have over 100,000 patients by the end of the year. I believe NM now wants as many patients and dispensaries as they can get as they are making good money off of this program. As you know, the state is in debt because of dropping oil and gas prices. A local sheriff just retired and opened a dispensary on Lomas . He put all these people in jail for drugs and then opens a dispensary. He said he changed his mind about marijuana because he wanted to go off opiates for his chronic pain.
There are 35 companies who can grow in NM and many have multiple dispensaries - besides collecting taxes, dispensary growers pay $90,000 to the Dept of Health for every 450 plants - which is the limit for each individual grow - most dispensaries have multiple grows so NM is making lots of money just on the plants growing. I live near a dispensary outdoor grow, and always talk to the guys who work there - run into them on the dirt road. Because of the limit per grow, they are growing the plants as big as small trees .
If you are just a patient, you can grow 16 plants - only 4 in flower at any one time and you can have 3oz in your house.
My best friend has MS really bad and is in chronic pain - a combination of mj and a Valium cuts her pain big time. The dispensary delivers to her house. Another friend with really bad arthritus eats mj cookies for her pain. My long time male companion has anxiety and mj takes it all away. Sorry for your pain - I have chronic knee pain in one knee and it's a drag. I also have friends who only use mj to sleep.
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