Medical Marijuana Bills Advance in Rhode Island and Delaware
There was good news on medical marijuana from two statehouses late today:
In Rhode Island, the news hasn’t hit the wires yet, but a statement from the Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition reports: “Tonight, Wednesday, June 3, the Rhode Island House of Representatives voted 64-4 for a bill to allow the Health Department to license a non-profit compassion center to grow medical marijuana for state-approved patients.” Having already passed the Senate, the bill now goes to Gov. Donald Carcieri.
The bill would make Rhode Island the first state to ever to expand an existing medical marijuana law to permit state-licensed dispensaries. Rhode Island’s original medical marijuana law was enacted over Carcieri’s veto in 2006, and observers think a similar outcome is likely this time.
Meanwhile, Delaware’s medical marijuana bill passed its first committee hurdle, the Senate Health and Social Services Committee, after a 90-minute hearing at which MPP legislative analyst Noah Mamber spoke. No one testified against the measure.
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This is fantastic, I sincerely hope that everything goes well with the dispensaries and that, since they are state licensed, a lawsuit happens in which federal law on this issue is challenged.
..”after a 90-minute hearing at which MPP legislative analyst Noah Mamber spoke. No one testified against the measure.”
LOL, what did he say?
Please go here and vote YES to this idea:
http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/3191-4049
It only takes a second.
i now live in colorado but grew up in little rhody, as it is known to rhode islanders, and this makes me proud. way to go little rhody.
YAYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I live in Delaware and haven’t heard a thing about this, but this is really exciting!!!!!
Just found an insteresting read on the DEA official website:
The campaign to legitimize what is called “medical” marijuana is based on two propositions: that science views marijuana as medicine, and that DEA targets sick and dying people using the drug. Neither proposition is true. Smoked marijuana has not withstood the rigors of science – it is not medicine and it is not safe. DEA targets criminals engaged in cultivation and trafficking, not the sick and dying. No state has legalized the trafficking of marijuana, including the twelve states that have decriminalized certain marijuana use.
Keep up the good work and make those power hungry bastards sallow in their sick crimes!
They dun wit da politikin here in Texass
For two freaking years!
The key word in that DEA message, is “Smoked” …. Why do they continuously throw that into the discussion. If they would properly educate the consumer instead of lying and scaring them, more people would know that vaporizers eliminate the harmful carcinogens inherent in anything burned and inhaled. They would choose to safely injest and the only potential “harm” to society is gone.
There is no rational argument against marijuana.
ONDCP says:
“Urgent Need to Expand Alternatives to Incarceration for Non-violent (drug) Offenders”
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/news/press09/052809.html
It would almost seem like a good sign if they didn’t seem determined to force me into a rehab program that I have no need nor desire to go to.
YES!!! No one testified against it! Thank God! It will save RI’ers who don’t want to go to the Black Market anymore a Boatload of Paranoia and hassle. In MI, The voters passed the law to grow and possess. Sick people are forced to grow because it costs so much. $250-$400 an OZ for “Medical Grade”. I’m REALLY sick, why else would they have issued a card to me. I’m on SSI and I cannot afford that at all. SO, I have to grow, what are my alternatives?
The Point is, where on earth do you get great genetics, if there’s no store? I had to go through a net of people who I felt were trying to set me up by enticing me to order seeds from overseas, which is Federally Illegal, and showing me their grows outside, which growing outside in the open with out a locked fenced SUPER SECURE are also illegal ( I read the Law) apparently some people haven’t or they’re cops testing me to see what I’ll do.
So, In order to alleviate the gene-type searching and to get nicely rooted female clones, a store is absolutely essential for the process to go smoothly.
hey mpp…when can we take it to missouri? I need help and I need help fast…I am going in today to get my percocet bumped up from 5 mg to 10 mg and probably go from taking it once every 6 hours to once every 4…I really wish I could just get the script for the pot. Its really the only thing left that completely takes the pain away. I just want help. Ive helped out the US system, I pay my taxes and work full time, I dont need the government money, just the governments permission….please help me to not be in pain anymore.
Any jackass with ten bucks can walk into a bar and get a legal buzz, but in order to make a more responsible choice I need to pay a doctor a pile of money and then get permission from the govt. Can you imagine doing all that crap for a beer?
it is great to hear that not every state in our union is a gestapo state that sneers in the face of facts and science and accepts rhetoirc and lies as policy for the sake of the past. put deleware, rhode island and their representitives on the mpp list of states to supports goods and commerce.
I was at the Delaware committee meeting and spoke in support of the bill.. I’m very glad about this, despite the fact that there is no wording in the bill to allow for people like me (bipolar disorder; panic attacks) to be protected under it. Any step’s a good step.
Some better news :
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle_blog/2009/jun/03/top_anti_drug_researcher_changes
btw…the bill is expected to be voted onby the end of June by the full Senate, keep your fingers crossed.
and jennifer, as i read the bill (i have it printed out and handy) (all 18 pages), section 1 does list several specific conditions, all more physical ailments such as cancer and aids rather than mental diseases and conditions as you describe. this is in paragraphs 1 and 2.
paragraph 3 then goes on to say “any other medical condition or it’s treatment approved by the dept., as provided in section 6.”
section 6 describes how a doctor can’t be punished for recommending marijuana in good faith essentially for whatever they see as fit.
the only question i would have is do mental conditions fall under the same legal definition as physical ailments do under the term “medical condition” that is used in section 1, paragraph 3. if yes, you are covered. if the bill is specific to physical ailments and excludes mental ones with that terminology, then unfortunately, no.
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