Coming soon: Big Buddha’s Cheese. But in the meantime, New Mexico’s sole licensed nonprofit medical cannabis producer is all out of product.

Marjorie Childress at the New Mexico Independent is reporting that the Santa Fe Institute for Natural Medicine has already sold out. Childress cites an unnamed medical cannabis patient who provided an alert from the SFINM Web site:

8/28/09 PRODUCT UPDATE

We are currently sold out of our inventory. Not knowing what members would like, our first crop was 50/50 indica dominant/sativa dominant. And although we are so sorry to run out, we now know that members prefer sativa dominant. We will try and adjust our proportions accordingly so this does not happen again. Also, please keep in mind that it takes 12-18 months for a smooth running ongoing production. This is especially tricky when it is a pilot project and mother nature is involved. We very much appreciate your patience.

Come October, we hope to introduce Big Buddha’s Cheese, Chocolope, and Kandy Kush to the menu. More details will come in September.

Everyone from Tennessee-grower Bernie Ellis to former state medical cannabis program coordinator Melissa Milam have complained that the 95-plant limit the DOH has imposed on nonprofit growers is far too small to handle the statewide patient demand. What compounds the problem is DOH Secretary Dr. Alfredo Vigil could not tell SFR when he thinks a second nonprofit grower/distributor will be granted a license.

To date there are 20 outstanding applications filed by nonprofit entities wishing to offer legal medical cannabis to patients. There are 540 patients registered with the program, only about a fifth are licensed to grow for themselves.

NMI’s glimpse into the private SFINM web site confirms that New Mexico patients are paying street prices for cannabis: “The top grade is $378 an ounce, the middle grade is $336, and the bottom grade…is $182 an ounce.”

Show us what has left the back of your eyelids burning. Send pictures of visual trespass and peculiarities to copyeditor [at] sfreporter.com, subject “eyedropper.” Thanks to all who contributed to this week’s Eyedropper.

I often toy with the idea of changing the name of this weekly blog from “Eyedropper” to “Boyfriends” or “My Favorite Cars”—especially when staff writers post such excellent slide shows of local men. Anyway, I’ve been compiling the best of those oft-mentioned subcategories and posted the best here. This photo (above) is the winner for best car* and, if a man had driven it, he would have won best boyfriend.
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Update:The Mayor’s Youth Advisory Board will take up the issue of gang violence on Thursday. Release pasted below.

Ever since Reeper published a slide show of screen captures from local gang members’ Myspace pages (story here), those gangsters have been flooding the post with comments ranging from anger over using the images without permission to pride of being a member of the West Side Lokos (“Our time to shine!” one writes).

In recent weeks, however, the comments have gotten a bit more verbose, with self-identified gang members speaking out in defense of John Villesange, aka Chuco, a teenager accused of shooting a rival gang member, Pedro Maldonado, in June. They say that Maldonado, aka Yako of Surenos 13, “had it coming.”

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The trailer for upcoming, New Mexico-shot film “The Men Who Stare at Goats” is out. The story is based on a book of the same title by one of my favorite limey journalists (and This American Life contributors) Jon Ronson. In essence, the book tracks decades worth of secret Pentagon programs to create “psychic warriors” … who can kill goats by staring at them. Somehow, this all ties to blasting Barney songs at imprisoned enemy combatants. Based on the trailer, it seems the filmmakers decided to fictionalize quite a bit, going so far as to change all the names, for the sake of action.

I love George Clooney, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey…but couldn’t they have found someone slightly more doofish, deadpan and intentionally naive than Ewan McGregor. That guy is a shite actor.

Ronson’s portrait is taped to the wall of my office. Personally, I would preferred an adaptation of “Them: Adventures with Extremists” first.

This week in pointless YouTube videos from around New Mexico… Dude rants about trash pickup and lawn mowers, gay Africans in Taos (I think that’s what it’s about), an evangelist in a tallis and a baby saying “Pap-Pap” in a Santa Fe restaurant.

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