Exhibit 1 (table):
Patient enrollment in state medical cannabis programs by year, 1999–2017
| 2009* | 2010* | 2011* | 2012 | 2013* | 2014* | 2015*` | 2016* | 2017 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of active patients per state per year | Alaska (1998) | 1431 | 1743 | 1773 | 1084 | 1053 | ||||
| Arizona (2010) | 17852 | 34699 | 43148 | 61272 | 92838 | 102040 | 152979 | |||
| Colorado (2000) | 41039 | 116198 | 82089 | 108526 | 110979 | 115467 | 107534 | 94577 | 93372 | |
| Delaware (2011) | 36 | 102 | 370 | 1414 | 3274 | |||||
| Hawaii (2000) | 13150 | 15334 | 19858 | |||||||
| Illinois (2013) | 2663 | 7707 | 21800 | |||||||
| Massachusetts (2012) | 4881 | 18476 | 39581 | 49505 | ||||||
| Michigan (2008) | 1717 | 56685 | 124131 | 96408 | 182091 | 218556 | 269553 | |||
| Minnesota (2014) | 2806 | 7022 | ||||||||
| Montana (2004) | 8681 | 7785 | 21881 | |||||||
| Nevada (2000) | 4989 | 8055 | 13561 | 25358 | 23489 | |||||
| New Hampshire (2013) | 2089 | 3493 | ||||||||
| New Jersey (2010) | 1670 | 3727 | 6960 | 12154 | 16937 | |||||
| New Mexico (2007) | 8206 | 10708 | 12419 | 19629 | 29046 | 46645 | ||||
| New York (2014) | 4998 | |||||||||
| Oregon (1998) | 29289 | 39301 | 45456 | 50259 | 54884 | 66311 | 78045 | 68032 | 59137 | |
| Rhode Island (2006) | 3069 | 8044 | 11914 | 18533 | ||||||
| Vermont (2004) | 3800 | |||||||||
| Washington DC (2010) | 4815 | 5386 | ||||||||
| Total per year | 72045 | 158568 | 202082 | 342546 | 227845 | 382299 | 537090 | 641176 | 813917 |
Notes. SOURCE: Author’s analysis of state medical cannabis registry data, collected from state reports over time as detailed in Appendix A1. (7) The year each law was passed is indicated in parentheses next to each state, and many states do not have data until one or more years after the law passed. Number of patients enrolled per state over time. Oregon’s program began in 1999 with 113 patients and had 19,302 patients by 2008. Rhode Island’s program began in 2006 with 192 patients and had 561 in 2008.
*
: indicates the years with missing values.