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Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition (RIPAC) is Rhode Island's non-profit grassroots medical marijuana community.  Patients, caregivers, doctors, nurses, health care providers, advocates, lawyers, organizations, and residents are invited to join our coalition. 


Current organizational members of the coalition include:

• RI Medical Society,

• RI Academy of Family Physicians,

• RI State Nurses Association,

• RI State Council of Churches,

• RI Public Health Association,

• United Nurses and Allied Professionals,

• Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, RI chapter,

• AIDS Care Ocean State,

• AIDS Project RI,

• Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP),

• RI affiliate, American Civil Liberties Union (RI ACLU),

• RI Office of the Public Defender,

• Senior Agenda Coalition (includes: Alliance for Retired Americans, RI; Alzheimer's Association RI; Coalition for Consumer Justice; Forum on Aging; Gray Panthers; Homefront Healthcare; Hope Alzheimer’s Center; Meals on Wheels; NRI Community Services; Providence Teachers Retirees Chapter; Rhodes to Independence; RI Adult Day Centers Association; RI Assisted Living Association; RI Federal Retirees; Senior Action in a Gay Environment; Silver Haired Legislature, RI; Westerly Adult Day Services),

• both of Rhode Island's chapters of the American Medical Students Association, at Brown University and at Brown University Medical School,

• and chapters of Students for Sensible Drug Policy at Brown University, Rhode Island College, and the University of Rhode Island. 

• We are also endorsed by Providence Mayor David Cicilline, URI President Robert Carothers, Brown University AIDS Program Director Dr. Kenneth Mayer, Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies founder Dr. David Lewis, and Dr. Jody Rich (Professor of Medicine and Community Health at Brown Medical School and Attending Physician at The Miriam Hospital).

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