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.”

One of the prime online resources for the medical marijuana community, Ajnag.com (yes, that’s ganja backwards) has developed an iPhone “app” to help patients find the nearest legal pot dispensary wherever their travels take them.

Neat, huh? And completely useless in New Mexico, where the name, location and contact details for the state’s only licensed medical cannabis growhouse and dispensary have not been made public by the state Department of Health, which administrates the program. The DOH is currently reviewing 14 more applications from nonprofits that would like to distribute cannabis, and those names, too, are kept confidential. Previously, SFR was able to identify many of them (see “Pot Plans”) due to cross-referencing company filings and because of redaction errors on the DOH’s behalf.

DOH just released six more applications to us. This time DOH staff was not only more diligent in their redaction, but more aggressive as well, blanking out PRC filing dates, county emblems and other indicators. SFR has filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s office as we believe this is a violation of the Inspection of Public Records Act. In the meantime, here are the latest redacted documents.

New Producer App 1

New Producer App 2

New Producer App 3

New Producer App 4

New Producer App 5

New Producer App 6

Click here for earlier applications.

You read the cover story about New Mexico’s medical marijuana program and now you want to see the documentation. I got it. Chill out.

Finally, our public records request came in. Below, you’ll find ginormous pdfs of the applications, both approved and pending, for non-profit marijuana growers and distributors. They’re not scans, but actually photos of the documents, so you won’t be able to search them, but you will be able to print them out. In the case of the approved producer, I photographed the whole thing, but on the others, I only photographed the interesting documents and left the redundant ones out.

Each document was heavily redacted by New Mexico Department of Health attorneys in order to maintain the security of the facilities. Keep in mind, the four pending are pending and haven’t been approved…and may not be approved in the end. We’ll also have three more within the next two weeks. Enjoy!

Approved Non-profit producer

Pending1

Pending 2

Pending 3

Pending 4