Support Rhode Island SB 185 / HB 5359 (medmj compassion centers)
Friday, February 13th, 2009 at 12:29 pm | By: Radical Russ
Subject: Rhode Island Legislature Considers Licensing Compassion Centers
Some 600 seriously ill patients are registered with the state Department of Health to use medicinal cannabis under their doctor’s supervision. You may be one of them.
Unfortunately patients in Rhode Island — as is the reality in most states – still lack a legal, regulated supply for their medicine. But that is about to change!
Over 50 House and Senate leaders have introduced legislation this week to allow the Department of Health to licensed medical marijuana compassion centers
Passage of these measures would mandate the legislature to establish rules governing the licensing of non-profit compassion centers “to acquire, possess, cultivate, manufacture, deliver, transfer, transport, supply, or dispense marijuana, or related supplies and educational materials, to registered qualifying patients.”
Earlier this year, New Mexico became the first state government to license non-profit facilities to grow and distribute medical cannabis. Rhode Island is poised to become the second.
Please take a moment today to contact your elected offices and urge them to support SB 185 and HB 5359.
For more information about these measures, please visit the Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition.
Thank you for supporting NORML’s marijuana law reform efforts in Rhode Island.
