Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Medical Marijuana by the (State DHS) Numbers

Posted By on Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:20 AM

The latest medical marijuana application report from the state Department of Health Services shows that the number of patients and caregivers continues to creep upward.

As of Au/ 13, there were 31,084 people with MMJ cards. Of those, 25,097 were new applications; 4,080 were renewed cards; and 1,217 were changed information, such as addresses. Just more than 700 either added, replaced or removed caregivers. So far, the largest age group is 18-30, which comprises almost 27 percent of patients. The next largest age group is their parents, ages 51-60. Hehe. There were 20 patients under 18 and 92 age 81 or older, and 73 percent are men, according to DHS.

Chronic pain was the ailment most-commonly used to get MMJ cards at 90 percent of patients. The next most common ailment is muscle spasms (13 percent), followed by nausea (9 percent) and hepatitis and cancer (4 percent).

Read all about it here.

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