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Reno Gazette-Journal | March 8, 2011
CARSON CITY (AP) Nevadas health division is requesting extra employees to handle a backlog of people applying for medical marijuana use permits.
Officials asked legislators Tuesday for three more workers to help handle a glut of 700 applications to the self-funding Medical Marijuana Registry, which has one permanent employee and is missing its 30-day statutory requirement for processing the permits.
Keeping demand for marijuana high could be a good thing for Nevada children. Permits cost $150 per year, and a proposed bill would transfer an estimated $700,000 in built-up reserves to fund childrens mental health programs.
About 4,000 people are on the registry, but Health Division Chief Luana Ritch warned that a rush of permit applications may be over and the program may no longer have the surplus to provide mental health funds.