Rhode Island to Provide Medical Marijuana Compassion Centers
In a historic first, Rhode Island legislators today made their state the first ever to expand an existing medical marijuana law to allow for state-licensed compassion centers to grow and distribute marijuana to registered patients. Legislators easily overrode the veto issued by Gov. Donald Carcieri with override votes of 67-0 in the House and 35-3 in the Senate.
This marks the second time the Rhode Island Legislature has expanded the medical marijuana law it established in 2006, which indicates the law’s successfulness as well as its popularity. It also marks the third time they had to override the governor’s veto in order to pass a medical marijuana law.
Are you governors out there paying attention?
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Popular things to do in your state.
Good for Rhode Island. That is good news. It does sound as if you should get rid of that jerk in the governor’s office.
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Right on Rhodie ! Next is Maine, vote in November.
Rhode Island’s Governor will NOT be re-elected. Maybe they don’t care, maybe they’re agenda is a dirty little secret!
I thought it was just some island somewhere off New York City; I didn’t know Rhode Island was a real state. Anyway, I’m happy for the folks who live there and hope this is a change for the better for them all.
Nice! Bodes well for the rest of the country!
That’s how you get things done. Rhode Island, show us the way!
As a Rhode Island resident, I am happy that our state will be more compassionate about the people who really need it. As a “heavy smoker” standpoint, it is another step closer to Legalization! Way to go Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations!
Wow, way to represent your constituency, by being overridden three separate times, on the same issue.
Thank you Rhode Island, for your wise decision on this important issue. Your decision is a good choice for patients who need it to control pain and nausea.
This is great. Now they need to decriminalize! Maine Newyork and Mass (HOMETOWN) BOSTON!!! have already done this. it it amazing to know I can chill with my buddies on a saturday night and walk down the street not afraid of arrest. It is the most amzing feeling in the world!!! If this catches on and enough states decrim. it the next step is legalization! VOTE IN NOVEMBER!!!
GREAT JOB RHODE ISLAND….NORTH CAROLINA NEXT…listen up legislators!If a crowd of oppressed Iranians can make history,let’s suck it up and make our own noise.
Rhode Island you’re the bomb. Let’s make some noise GEORGIA. Make your voice heard.
Wow cool, now it’s up to california to be the first state to regulate and tax marijuana (AB 390 look it up) and just like medical other states will follow.
This may be common knowledge to many, but I haven’t ever heard this stated as a counter-argument against the “gateway drug” critique. But here it is:
The idea that Marij is a gateway drug must be analyzed from two perspectives: that from the side of the drug itself, and that from the side of ‘user psychology’. From the side of the drug itself, this argument makes no sense; there is no way to determine what contents of any ingestible entity can lead a free-willed, rational person to proceed to another ingestible entity. And while there may be perceivable correlations, it is erroneous to take the step from correlation to causation. This means that one must look instead at the ‘user psychology’ perspective.
Now, when this is examined, a very interesting truth comes to light: IF marij is indeed a ‘gateway’ drug, then this attribute – let us call it ‘gateway-ness’ must clearly be connected to its illegality, and here’s why: as a class, “drugs” can be divided into ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’. A person who drinks heavily, smokes cigarettes, or even drinks a great deal of coffee does so with a free conscience; these are, by societal standards, acceptable since they are legal. Now, when one tries marij and has a good experience, one has stepped foot into the ‘illegal’ realm (so to speak), where not only one finds marij but all other ‘illegal’ drugs. The common mentality is a sort of mental looting: now that I’m in this illegal realm, so the thought process goes, I might as well try these others. There is a common tendency within human thought to classify everything beyond a limit as similar insofar as they share the attribute ‘beyond the limit’. Hence, once the limit is crossed, discretion is left behind.
So it is really the fact that marij is ILLEGAL that makes it, if in fact it is, a ‘gateway’ drug. Remove its illegality and relieve it of its ‘illegal pressure’ extending the limit of the illegal further to those drugs (like Heroine) which really are dangerous.
Just a thought.
Very well put Dark Horizon. Way to go Rhode Island.
Way to go Rhode Island!!! We are excited for all of you over there.
Hopefully the rest of the states will follow your lead.
way to go rhode island, lets go michigan
In my city in Missouri, the law for marijuana is decriminalized, but nowhere else in MO is it even legal for medical purposes! The only liberal town in the state I suppose. There is a lot of talk about this spreading like wildfire, what state will be next?
http://tinyurl.com/l6fcnd
hey California, just read that AB 390 bill:
“Beginning 30 days after the operative date of the
regulations issued pursuant to this chapter, or 30 days after the
date when federal law permits the possession and sale of marijuana
consistent with this chapter, whichever is latest, the department
shall begin to enforce the provisions of this chapter.”
Sorry but looks like California’s waiting on the feds, and that will probably never happen considering the war on drugs is just profiteering.
YES! Rhode Island we love your success here in Maine. We look forward to our meeting next month to visit your state. Maine has decriminalized, now lets be # 3 for dispensaries! Vote in November! GO MAINE
Lets go NJ get of your lazy pot smokin’ @$$ and vote I copied this from http://www.norml.org a good site informing us of our rights as they stand and keeping you informed on these issues ! Incumbent Governor Jon Corzine, who said he would sign the bill into law, is facing an uphill battle against Republican candidate Chris Christie, who opposes the measure. The fate of bill S-119, it seems, rests on the November 2nd, 2009 election results
i from ct with the biggest bitch gov. she really needs to get out of office 2010 i really hope shes out soon im a med marijuana pa. in ca but not in ct its bull shit how in the same county i can go 3000 miles to the west and be free but in the same country 3000 miles to the east and im fuck im on probation and have a non active tumor behind my right eye now i have to stop smoking but now i lose my sight the marijuan take pressure off my eye and help me i really fuckedidont want to go to jail for taking my med but they got me by the balls what a country we liv in
steve besher gov. of kentucky what about us that are sick and tired of hypocracy,is mississippi going to always have the only marijuana farm?i know pot is legal in 13 states,we have proof that whiskey is full of spirts that kill people everyday,but the consitution is wrote on it ,OBAMA TRIED MARIJUANA,ITS ALL GOOD YES I KNOW ABOUT THE REPUBLICANS PLAN TO LET MARIJUANA HELP THEM GET THE WHITE HHOUSE BACK,TIME FOR THE CURRENT PRESIDENT TO MAKE BELIEVE HE HAS SAY SO ON THIS ISSUE,SO FAR HE HAS LAUGHED AT US ?
“are you governors out there paying attention” thats awsome keep up the great reporting!
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