In 2000, Colorado authorized the use of marijuana for qualified patients by a constitutional amendment.  Today in Colorado, approximately 1000 people a day qualify as appropriate candidates to use medical marijuana.  In a recent newspaper article, the author contended that the demographics of these patients seem to be somewhere between 20 to 30 years old.   Some of the conditions that have qualified these candidates are insomnia, back problems and menstrual pain.

A doctor in Boulder Colorado seems to have cornered the market on certifying people as qualified patients.  At times, he is able to receive 100 patients a day.  Last year, he disclosed that he saw 7,000 people who sought to obtain a script to use medical marijuana.  These people paid this doctor an average of $150 for his review.  His business has become so successful that he expects to start a company that will franchise a similar operation in other medical marijuana states.