The New Mexican, 24 Sep 2011 – Four years after New Mexico’s Medical Cannabis Program was created, nearly 4,000 New Mexico residents have been approved to use the herb as medicine, and 25 nonprofit producers have been licensed to sell it to them. New Mexico’s system for regulating those producers is being adopted by other states as a model for allowing medicinal use of marijuana without seeing pot dispensaries pop up on every street corner, as they have in California and Colorado.

The New Mexican, 24 Sep 2011 – Four years after New Mexico’s Medical Cannabis Program was created, nearly 4,000 New Mexico residents have been approved to use the herb as medicine, and 25 nonprofit producers have been licensed to sell it to them. New Mexico’s system for regulating those producers is being adopted by other states as a model for allowing medicinal use of marijuana without seeing pot dispensaries pop up on every street corner, as they have in California and Colorado.

The New Mexican, 29 Sep 2010 – Most Controversial Debate Surrounds Increased Producer Fee A panel that advises the state on medical-marijuana policy voted Wednesday to allow major depression as a qualifying condition. The decision now goes to Dr. Alfredo Vigil, health department secretary. If he agrees, depression would be the 16th medical condition approved for patient medical marijuana use. Others include chronic pain, post-traumatic stress disorder, cancer, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis and HIV/AIDS patients.