Colorado ~100,000 Registered Patients

According to Westword – Blogs there are about 105,000 applications for a medical marijuana registry card in Colorado. The backlog is about 70,000.

The key graph from the blog post:

Still, only a fraction of those Coloradans have received their official medical marijuana ID cards: 32,000 in 2010, Hyman says, with a backlog of 73,000 people whose applications are still being processed. To deal with that mountain of paperwork, Colorado’s department of health has added 56 temporary employees this year, twenty of whom were hired over the past three weeks. If all goes as planned, the backlog should be eliminated over the next eight months.

Related posts:

1. The Colorado Medical Marijuana Registry Announces Changes For Submitting Applications
2. Medical Marijuana Registry backlog
3. Colorado Municipal League to discuss Medical Marijuana