Two Years In, And There's Still Medical Marijuana Confusion  By:
Jamie Edmonds Email By: Jamie Edmonds Email  Somewhere in a
small room in a state office building in Lansing, employees are
combing through hundreds upon hundreds of applications for
medical marijuana cards.  "We get so many applications, in no
way can we review them all," Rae Ramsdell said. "So we look for
ones with missing information and deny those first."  Ramsdell,
is the acting director in the Bureau of Health Professionals.
It's her job to oversee the Medical Marijuana Act application
process. With a full-time staff of eight, plus nine temporary
workers, they still can't get to through them all, which this
month is averaging about 770 per day.  "We started with a staff
of three, we didn't have that many applications in the
beginning," she said. "I've been doing licensing programs for
awhile and usually we get an overwhelming batch in the
beginning, then they die down. In this program they just
haven't, in fact they continue to increase."