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[NM] Panel suggests adding 'major depression' to medical pot list
    #13268089 - 09/30/10 01:25 AM (13 years, 7 months ago)

Panel suggests adding 'major depression' to medical pot list
September 29, 2010 - [url=http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local News/medical-marijuana-Panel-suggests-adding--major-depression---to-]santafenewmexican.com[/url]

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.

About a dozen people — including a lawyer, a social worker and a woman who drove from Las Cruces — spoke Wednesday in favor of adding depression, and the panel agreed 5-2. No one spoke out against the addition.

But another topic — a series of proposed rule changes to the program — dominated hallway discussions among the patients, providers and others in attendance.

Those changes, which include charging nonprofit medical producers a fee of about 7 percent of their annual gross receipts and increasing the fee for a producer license to $1,000 from $100 to help fund the program, will be discussed in a public hearing today.

Deborah Busemeyer, health department spokeswoman, said the fee increase is needed to pay for the administration of the program, which now serves 2,500 patients. The program has no budget of its own.

"We really want to expand what we are able to do," Busemeyer said. "One proposal is to test products; to get some samples to test for mold and other contaminants."

Other changes would allow certified patients to purchase seeds so they can grow their own marijuana, Busemeyer said. Another change would give the health secretary more authority over producer licenses.

Staff from the medical-cannabis program will decide which of the changes to accept after hearing public comment on the issue today. She said approved changes could become effective as early as November.

Today's hearing will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the auditorium of the Harold Runnels building at the corner of St. Francis Drive and Alta Vista Street.

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