Rhode Island

Rhode Island Is Considering Recreational Marijuana Legislation

Rhode Island May Follow Massachusetts’s Lead and Regulate and Tax Marijuana After California, Nevada, Maine…

Most Americans Now Live in States That Have Rejected Marijuana Prohibition

By Rob Kampia  |  Published in The Huffington Post The marijuana policy reform movement…

Drug-bashing RI Republican charged with drug use

By Kase Wickman |  Published in The Raw Story Robert Watson, a high-ranking Republican…

Finding marijuana prescribing doctor now the hard part

PROVIDENCE — Last month, the Department of Health gave the go-ahead for the opening of three medical marijuana dispensaries that were authorized in large part to give patients a safer and more accessible way to obtain what the federal government still classifies as an illegal substance.But the opening of the dispensaries may not necessarily make it easier for patients to get marijuana. Thanks to a law enacted by the General Assembly in the waning days of last year’s session, most information about the medical-marijuana program, including the names of doctors who certify patients for marijuana-use cards, is now secret.

As a result, patients who want to obtain medical-marijuana are depending on word of mouth to find a doctor in Rhode Island who’s willing to certify their need.

“They’re not going to be able to find them in the Yellow Pages, that’s for sure,” says Steven R. DeToy, spokesman for the Rhode Island Medical Society.

Regulations Covering Medical Marijuana Vary in 15 States

By Tracy Breton | Published in The Providence Journal Fifteen states plus the District of…

Rhode Island's Medical Marijuana Law Causes Confusion

Posted originally for Providence, R.I. NBC affiliate and written by Katie Davis Enforcement of…