By Joel Warner
The number of medical marijuana applications the state received last Tuesday? A whopping 1,650 — an all-time record, says state registrar Ron Hyman, who oversees the applications. That’s a mind-blowing figure, especially considering that the total application number had barely crested 5,000 at the start of 2009.
And that day was far from a fluke. “We’re completely buried,” says Hyman. It’s impossible to know just how many marijuana applications in total the state’s been receiving lately. Hyman’s office, way overburdened, just wrapped up processing the applications from September and posted statistical information from that month online. 19,691 new patient applications had been received by the end of that month, up 3,000 from the month before.
