onegreenday
Active Member
If the RI speaker wants to tweak the marijuana law he only needs to ask patients and caregivers
and he'll get all the info he needs.
Both the Gov & now the Speaker claim they are willing to tweak the RI law and we are
having no imput. I've contacted RIPAC numerous times to orchestrate a meeting
with our 'leaders' to tweak the program since the Gov won't sign and nothing happens.
Time to kick-start the program with some new ideas since the Gov won't budge & court cases
would take too long.
Not a single proposal from RIPAC on how to tweak the program.
http://news.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/2011/12/ri-house-speake-2.html#.Txd0AvnW6rg
R.I. House speaker to ask feds how to tweak marijuana law
December 27, 2011 5:05 pm
By Philip Marcelo
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- House Speaker Gordon D. Fox says he'll personally petition the federal Department of Justice to see how Rhode Island can open the large-scale dispensaries for growing and selling marijuana that advocates have long sought.
The Providence Democrat says he disagrees with Governor Chafee's decision to halt the process of issuing the state's first dispensary operating licenses.
Many states, including Rhode Island, have been issued a warning from the Justice Department that the facilities might violate federal law. But some governors are proceeding with opening the dispensaries anyway.
"I plan on going to the federal government to ask them: 'What do you need it to look like?'," Fox said Tuesday afternoon. "Because I think it's been too long and there have been too many people waiting."
Under state law, medical marijuana patients currently purchase the drug from "caregivers" licensed to sell and grow small quantities of marijuana.
and he'll get all the info he needs.
Both the Gov & now the Speaker claim they are willing to tweak the RI law and we are
having no imput. I've contacted RIPAC numerous times to orchestrate a meeting
with our 'leaders' to tweak the program since the Gov won't sign and nothing happens.
Time to kick-start the program with some new ideas since the Gov won't budge & court cases
would take too long.
Not a single proposal from RIPAC on how to tweak the program.
http://news.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/2011/12/ri-house-speake-2.html#.Txd0AvnW6rg
R.I. House speaker to ask feds how to tweak marijuana law
December 27, 2011 5:05 pm
By Philip Marcelo
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- House Speaker Gordon D. Fox says he'll personally petition the federal Department of Justice to see how Rhode Island can open the large-scale dispensaries for growing and selling marijuana that advocates have long sought.
The Providence Democrat says he disagrees with Governor Chafee's decision to halt the process of issuing the state's first dispensary operating licenses.
Many states, including Rhode Island, have been issued a warning from the Justice Department that the facilities might violate federal law. But some governors are proceeding with opening the dispensaries anyway.
"I plan on going to the federal government to ask them: 'What do you need it to look like?'," Fox said Tuesday afternoon. "Because I think it's been too long and there have been too many people waiting."
Under state law, medical marijuana patients currently purchase the drug from "caregivers" licensed to sell and grow small quantities of marijuana.
