RIPAC E-News
April 2008 Edition
RI Patient Advocacy Coalition
April 2008 Edition
RI Patient Advocacy Coalition
Welcome to the monthly newsletter of the RI Patient Advocacy Coalition (RIPAC), Rhode Island's medical marijuana community! Visit our website, www.RIpatients.org.
In this issue:
1. MEDICAL MARIJUANA COMPASSION CENTER BILL HEARING ON TUES
2. MMJ IN THE NEWS: PROJO, WRNI, CHANNEL 10, I.M. NEWS
3. NEW MMJ ENDORSEMENTS, STATE CHURCHES AND PUBLIC DEFENDER
4. CHECK OUT NEW ASA PATIENT VIDEOS, AND PATIENT WEBSITE
5. APRIL COMMUNITY MEETING AND CARDHOLDER MEETING
6. COMPASSION CENTER IN RHODE ISLAND? WE NEED MONTHLY DONORS!
1. MEDICAL MARIJUANA COMPASSION CENTER BILL HEARING ON TUES
2. MMJ IN THE NEWS: PROJO, WRNI, CHANNEL 10, I.M. NEWS
3. NEW MMJ ENDORSEMENTS, STATE CHURCHES AND PUBLIC DEFENDER
4. CHECK OUT NEW ASA PATIENT VIDEOS, AND PATIENT WEBSITE
5. APRIL COMMUNITY MEETING AND CARDHOLDER MEETING
6. COMPASSION CENTER IN RHODE ISLAND? WE NEED MONTHLY DONORS!
1. MEDICAL MARIJUANA COMPASSION CENTER BILL HEARING ON TUES
- This Tuesday 4/8, the House of Representatives bill H7888 will be heard in the Health, Education, & Welfare committee. Please attend to support testifying patients! State House room 135, ~4:30pm, contact us online or call 861-1601 for more details.
- Last Wednesday 4/2, S2693, which would regulate distribution of medical marijuana by allowing a non-profit Compassion Center to distribute medical marijuana to Rhode Island's licensed patients, was heard in the Senate Health & Human Services committee. Thanks to those who testified!
- In a great front-page story this Thursday, "Bill would create marijuana dispensaries," the Providence Journal reported favorably on Wednesday's Compassion Center hearing.
- On Wednesday just before the S2693 hearing, WRNI RI Public Radio began airing these two short stories on the bill.
- Our NBC affiliate, Channel 10 WJAR, covered the Compassion Center bill in its 6pm and 11pm evening news broadcasts; read an abridged transcript here.
- A recent issue of the medical journal Internal Medicine News has a lead article on the American College of Physicians' medical marijuana endorsement, featuring RI's Dr. Jody Rich!
- The Rhode Island State Council of Churches has recently endorsed medical marijuana and RIPAC's mission for a Compassion Center.
- The Rhode Island Office of the Public Defender joins them as the newest endorser of the Compassion Center bill.
- Americans for Safe Access has released new video testimonials from medical marijuana patients. Watch these compelling videos online here.
- Patients should also visit patientslikeme.com, a new online community cross-indexing medical conditions and their symptoms with treatments--including marijuana.
- RIPAC's next open Community Meeting for patients, caregivers, advocates, and anyone else interested in learning more about medical marijuana will be 6:30pm, Tuesday, April 15, at the South Providence Public Library (441 Prairie Avenue, Providence). Contact RIPAC for more information.
- Our next Cardholder Meeting, only for licensed patients and caregivers in the RI Medical Marijuana Program, will be 7pm, Tuesday, April 29. If you are a licensed patient or caregiver and would like to attend, contact RIPAC here for more details.
- Please consider becoming a monthly sustainer of RIPAC by signing up for monthly tax-deductible donations to support our efforts and programs; learn how at RIpatients.org/donate or by calling 401-861-1601.