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The push is on for Med Marijuana dispesnaries
11:08AM ON
06/02/2008
BY
Dave Segal
RIPAC lands on the op-ed page, and in the Political Scene today:
BY PROTECTING medical marijuana patients, the General Assembly has greatly helped some very ill people — 376 so far. But legal medical marijuana patients in Rhode Island still buy their medicine from illegal drug dealers.
After one of our patient/caregiver meetings this year, a patient suffering from a severe gastro-intestinal disorder told me that he was recently robbed at gunpoint while trying to buy marijuana. He was trying to grow his own medicine at home, but his plants were dying and he had nowhere else to turn. He went down to the street corner, asked around for a drug dealer, offered cash, and found himself looking down the barrel of a handgun. The dealer took his money and ran.
What? Isn’t there somewhere for the severely debilitated people in our state’s medical marijuana program to go buy their medicine safely?
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