Here are the latest numbers from Colorado:

• 99,559 new patient applications have been received to date since the registry began operating in June 2001. One three hundred (300) applications have been denied, 68 cards have been revoked, 513 patients have died, and 3,201 cards have expired, bringing the total number of patients who currently possess valid Registry ID cards to 95,477.
• Seventy-one percent of approved applicants are male.
• The average age of all patients is 40. Currently twenty-four patients are minors (under the age of 18).
• Fifty-eight percent of patients reside in the Denver-metro and area (Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas & Jefferson counties), with the remainder of patients found in counties throughout Colorado.
• Patients on the Registry represent all the debilitating conditions covered under Amendment 20. Severe pain accounts for 94% of all reported conditions; muscle spasms account for the second-most reported condition at 24%. Note that percentages do not add up to 100 percent because some patients have more than one condition.
• Sixty-six percent of patients have designated a primary care-giver (someone who has significant responsibility for managing the care of a patient with a debilitation medical condition).
• More than 1,100 different physicians have signed for patients in Colorado.