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New Mexico Proposes Fee Increase, Greater Confidentiality for Medical Pot Program

Tue, Aug 31, 2010 5:15 pm

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The New Mexico Department of Health would like to increase the application fee paid by potential medical cannabis growers in the state from $100 to $1,000. The state has approved 11 growers since March 2009 – when they issued their first grow license. Growers are restricted to 95 plants and seedlings and “an inventory restricted to current qualified patient needs.”

In addition to the application fee, the Health Department proposes to create an annual fee for licensed nonprofits that grow pot. The state, which has 2,250 medical marijuana patients, estimates that each licensed grower could clear $300,000 to $400,000 a year. The new fee “would be equal to 7 percent of a producer’s total annual gross receipts.”

Officials say the increase would “help the program be financially self-sufficient.”

Other potential changes include testing medical marijuana for contaminants to ensure a safe product and a measure that would make the names of doctors who certify patients confidential.

“Some practitioners are reluctant to certify patients’ eligibility due to concerns over federal law.” Making doctors’ names confidential would protect “the integrity of the program and the safety and security of those practitioners who refer patients to the program.”

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Mark Nickle

Sep 4 2010, 4:29 pm

Sherry aspden is a poster pigs for all English females, the english are oxiding more biological and nuclear substances to murder innocent people, everyone says to me the English are the biggest losers on earth, your all annoying, stupid grown ups with mentalities of 7 year olds, this is why the English and their sons are like protective because their sons are idiots, immature, they are too stupid to make it on their own, they all have rich scumb fathers, I hate rich people, all you rich have a new undisclosed illness, i call it the rich mans disese, their loser rich kids who don't know what a dollars worth, oust will david willmot form chairman of the board, how is the chairman of the board race his horses at the company he operates, will mot pays congress 2 billion a month to keep his title at woodbine entertainment group, a non profit corporation that uses their profits to commit the most horrific crimes against the economy and humanity, will mot murdered Tammy samual because he got wind that she might have been the new CEO of the company and today I heard Karen Tandy wants to take over his title, maybe if she's CEO the jockeys will not hold the horses back. Shot a horse when they train to oust will mot and the barn fire was not sabotage it was an electrical fire that was not wired right, to save the track from compensating the horse owners which would of put them out of business

REALLY?

Sep 3 2010, 5:33 pm

OKAY WTF , NICE ONE JACKASS

ThE Staff ??????????

Sep 3 2010, 5:29 pm

HE has schizophrenia and needs help , so leave the post up and wait until this shit makes the national news. OH AND WHOEVER THE ASSHOLE IS WHO PUT UP THE PREVIOUS POST MENTIONING "GUNS". oh SO THAT'S THE TIPPING POINT, NOT KILLING PEOPLE, IT'S JUST THE GUNS THAT MAKE THIS MAN DANGEROUS. IF ONLY YOU WERE LOOKING AT A HUMAN BEING WITH A CLASSIC CASE OF schizophrenia AND NOT WORRYING ABOUT MORON POLITICS. fuck you asshole. NICE MORALS YOU FUCKING ASSHAT

Dangreen

Sep 1 2010, 3:45 pm

Dear HT Staff!!!
Is there anyway on Misshightimes.com you can track someone's IP address. Same people keep harassing me on there. And they called the cops on me for texting them to stop harassing me. Then I got thrown in Jail for it cause I said I would throw down. So I need to get the IP address to prove that they will not leave me alone. So I can have the charges dropped against me pls pls pls let me know. I do not deserve what this person has done to me.
Thanks and Stay High
Dangreen
email-pympdan@live.com
myspace.com/dangreen420

The staff

Sep 1 2010, 3:30 pm

ok... MR.Thomas Price.,
We have your IP address and we are going to have you served with a notice of our intent to have your access denied to this website from the IP address we have and any other you may have used.

Any more inflamatory statements and threats and or of "getting a gun..," are considered credible and will be investigated by the police.

gstlab3

Aug 31 2010, 7:56 pm

MORE MONEY TO BE PAID TO THE BEUROCRATS IN AN NEVER ENDING STREAM OF THE PEOPLES MONEY THAT GOES INTO THE HOLE OF NO RETURN.

IT SHOULD BE FREE TO ANYONE.

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