A community meeting will be held tonight to discuss Rhode Island’s medical marijuana program. This is an opportunity to meet and exchange information with other patients, caregivers, and advocates. For more information call Jesse or JoAnne at 861.1601 at RIPAC. tuesday, 6:30pm to 8pm, Riverside Library, 275 Bullocks Point Avenue, Riverside
RIPAC, the medical marijuana advocacy coalition, is holding its monthly community meeting tonight from 6:30pm to 8:00pm. RIPAC executive director, Jesse Stout, invites all Rhode Islanders interested in medical marijuana to come and discuss this topic and meet other patients, caregivers, and advocates. 6:30pm/Weaver Library/41 Grove Avenue, East Providence/for info call 861.1601
Grow sites maintained by Mexican marijuana-growing cartels are destroying our National Parks. Weed and bug sprays, some long banned in the U.S., have been smuggled to the marijuana farms. Plant growth hormones have been dumped into streams, and the water has then been diverted for miles in PVC pipes. Rat poison has been sprinkled over …
Heroin users have always been a notoriously hard group to mobilize, but you would think the cokeheads could have pushed this through by now. I kid — this is an important issue for all citizens. The Brown University chapter of Students for a Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) sponsored a lecture last night featuring Jeffrey A. …
All Rhode Islanders interested in medical marijuana are invited to the Smith Hill library to discuss this topic and meet other patients, caregivers, and advocates. (For more info contact RIPAC, 145 Wayland Avenue, 861.1601). 6:30pm to 8pm/Smith Hill Library/31 Candace Street (map)
RIPAC is holding a community meeting tonight for patients, caregivers, advocates, and anyone else interested in learning more about medical marijuana. Meeting starts at 7:00pm in the Arnold Lounge of Keeney Quadrangle at Brown University (Benevolent Street between Brown and Benefit Streets/map). More information at RIPAC or call 401.861.1601.
This is a Community Meeting. RIPAC director Jesse Stout welcomes all Rhode Islanders interested in medical marijuana for a discussion of this topic and to meet other patients, caregivers, and advocates. The meeting will be held in the Keeney Quad at Brown University, in the Arnold Lounge. For info call 861.1601. 7PM to 8:30PM/July 15/Benevolent …
Attention artists. Help RIPAC design their new T-shirt and if your entry is chosen you can win… a brand new T-shirt! Well, it’s all about the glory really. And the cause. RIPAC is the medical marijuana advocacy coalition that helped our enlightened legislators make marijuana possession legal for qualified patients. But the battle for availability …
Come to the State House this afternoon at 3pm to let the House of Representatives know you want a vote on the Compassion Center bill. This bill would allow the Department of Health to establish and regulate a dispensary to grow and distribute medical marijuana to patients and their caregivers. Patients need safe access to …
Check out the June issue of Providence Monthly (no reading it online, you must pick up a hard copy) for a piece on the Compassion Center Bill currently working its way through the RI legislature. Spearheading this effort is RIPAC executive director, Jesse Stout (seen here speaking at last year’s annual NORML convention). The bill …
Legislators and advocates seeking to expand the medical marijuana law to include the creation of marijuana dispensaries, or Compassion Centers, found “little support for this legislation at this time” after yesterday’s hearing before the House Health, Education and Welfare Committee. Democrat Thomas C. Slater, speaking to the Providence Journal, further stated “If I can’t get …
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Jesse Stout, Executive Director of RIPAC, the medical marijuana advocacy coalition, encourages all interested parties to attend today’s hearing at the State House to show support for the patients, doctors and experts testifying in front of the Senate’s Health and Human Services committee in favor of the ‘Compassion Center Bill’. Under this bill a non-profit …
RIPAC will hold a Community Meeting Tuesday at 7pm, at AIDS Project RI, located at 232 West Exchange Street, Providence. All Rhode Islanders — patients, caregivers, advocates, and residents — are invited to come together to discuss the RI Medical Marijuana Program and share information and experiences. The difficulties facing licensed patients and caregivers in …
RIPAC will hold a community meeting tonight for patients, caregivers and advocates to discuss the RI Medical Marijuana Program and meet like-minded people. (The next RIPAC cardholder meeting, for licensed patients and caregivers only, will be Tuesday, February 26, at 7pm. Location TBA) Tuesday/6:30 – 8:00PM/ 441 Prairie Avenue, Providence For more information contact: Jesse …
According to the Associated Press, one innovative California man has installed pot vending machines in two locations for use by previously authorized and paid-up medical marijuana patients. “Convenient access, lower prices, safety and anonymity” are the advantages touted by owner/inventor Vincent Mehdizadeh. According to the article, anger management is one of the disabilities covered under …
Medical Marijuana Informational Meeting Tonight, Tuesday, at 7:00PM, the Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition will be holding a community meeting for patients, caregivers and advocates in the Peterutti Lounge of Faunce House on the Brown campus at Waterman Street. Whether it is for yourself or for someone in your care, this is an ideal opportunity …