Mr. Charlie
Member
Ron Hyman, the state's registrar of vital statistics, knows that the deluge of medical marijuana registry applications his office receives daily has to stop eventually. After all, he jokes, Colorado only has five million residents. But given the latest numbers, this humorous line has a certain ring of truth. As of this month, about 105,000 people have applied to the registry for cards -- which amounts to roughly 2 percent of the state's population. To put it another way, the number of would-be medical marijuana patients in Colorado now exceeds the total population of Pueblo -- and it's significantly higher than the percentage of Coloradans who identify themselves as American Indian.
Here is a link to the rest of the story in Denver Westword...
http://blogs.westword.com/latestwor..._colorado_mmj_patients_passes_100000_mark.php
Here is a link to the rest of the story in Denver Westword...
http://blogs.westword.com/latestwor..._colorado_mmj_patients_passes_100000_mark.php
