Projo 7 to 7 News Blog

For those of you who like to blame Don Carcieri, or any other RI Governor, for Rhody's problems here is proof positive that NOTHING happens in RI that the Democrat leadership doesn't want to happen. They have a VETO-PROOF majority. It's totally irrelevant who the Governor of Rhode Island is.

This won't complicate the jobs of law enforcement. If someone has a medical card and they're not over the legal amount there's no infraction of law. It will reduce the number of court cases where people who will be allowed under the new law being tried when they had no legal standing to do so. All the prohibitions against it now are doing little to nothing to stop it anyway.

Carcieri is, as he always has been, an empty suit.

We can just hope that Patrick K. won't be lurking around one of these drug give away centers. He seems to have a problem with any kind of drugs.

From time to time the Rhode Island Legislature seems downright enlightened.

In passing the original law, they missed the mark, of course, in not providing a simple legal way for patients to obtain their medication; also missing from the bill was a strict oversight of the caregiver program which the compassion centers will address, in part.

Still missing is that there needs to be an ombudsman with authority to help patients who run into problems with the administration of the medical marihuana program.

As for Governor Carcieri's comments, as quoted in the ProJo...a word I reserve for special occasions is "pathetic". I won't even try to comment on them because each phrase in his comments would elicit paragraphs filled with reasons and examples to demonstrate how empty his words are.

Getting legal medical relief to patients with disabling and often painful medical conditions will "negatively impact the children of Rhode Island" as much as gay marriage will shake the foundations of Governor and Mrs. Carcieri's marriage, sending them to Divorce Court.

It's time for him to go.

Deaths Related to Tobacco each year 400,000
Deaths Related to Alcohol each year 100,000
Deaths Due to Marijuana EVER 0, Nada,Zip, not 1!!!!

LOL, almost every other politician in Rhode Island voted against the Govna. He truly is an empty suit. Plus Carcieri was totally WRONG about this marijuana issue.

Don Carcieri is an idiot. I only wish he would get vetoed on other issues

Again Governor Carcieri will in time be proven
correct on this drug issue. Its hard to stand alone in this state. The morals are just so low. Its a sad day for Rhode Islanders once again. Though its the Rhode Islanders that voted these people in office. When will RI wake up; maybe never or maybe when its just to late. The spoiled brats got their way again and they will reap what they have sown; maybe then they will see they were wrong.You people don't understand that you are ruining the state you live in.
time will tell.

"WOW,ONLY IN RHODE ISLAND!" I ONLY HOPE THAT THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY NEED IT,GET IT. THE ONLY PROBLEM I HAVE IS ,IF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY GETS THEIR HAND ON IT DURING SESSION ,THEY WILL NEED TO INCREASE THE FOOD BUDGET AMOUNT THAT IS PAID FOR BY THE TAX PAYERS! I CAN'T WAITE FOR NEXT ELECTION. GOD SAVE US ALL.

Hey Don (6/16, 4:53 pm)! It the RI "DEMOCRATIC" leadership! And if you have nothing to say about the issue itself, SHUT UP!!

I can't wait for Carcieri to leave the office, and the State!

How do I become an authorized supplier/grower?

Patients will be easy targets for mugging and that drug dealers will do so and sell it illegally a block away?????
Yeah,right! If that were the case, every CVS in the state would be a hot spot for such activity for a multitude of pan killers and other drugs that are used recreationally. That argument holds no water hey must think we are all dolts to even suggest such a thing.

When they ended prohibition, it was due to money,lost revenue in the form of taxes to be precise.
The only reason they have not done the same for pot is that it is too easy to grow and taxing it would be all but impossible with the backyard farmer...

I should have added to my previous comment.
I am a sufferer of chronic pain. I have had 5 surgeries to my cervical and lumbar spine. 7 of the 23 discs that protect my spinal cord have seen surgery. I am fused at 5 levels and I have an 8th disc that will soon require a sixth surgery.

I take strong narcotics on a daily basis. Narcotics that are not much different than heroin. They have strong undesirable side effects and cost me money. They cost you money as well in the form of medicare costs. Marijuana is free if grown and not covered under medicare (thus not an expense to the public).

I have every intention to request from my primary care physician, a script for medical marijuana. I recently tried it and it not only helped with the pain but it quelled the anxiety and depression that is a big part of my current condition.
It would replace 3 medications my doctors currently prescribe. I will of course, cultivate my own....

What don't you posters get about the Governor, or any Governor, being entirely irrelevant in Rhode Island? I don't care if it's Joe Garrahy, John Chafee, Phil Noel, Ed DiPrete, or FDR; the Democrat leadership in the General Assembly runs Rhode Island with ABSOLUTE authority. The GA is VETO-PROOF, get a clue!

Congratulations RI on moving the right way.

The sooner medical-grade cannabis is available to anyone with proof of adulthood wherever they can buy whiskey and cigars, the better. To keep Cannabis illegal while tobacco and alcohol are dispensed freely is murderously stupid.

Google "Tashkin".

Any questions?

Richard P Steeb, San Jose California

Never tried marijuana...mostly cuz I know that I'd probably get addicted easily. Just not worth it to me. Medically, I agree with a previous poster...I hope whoever needs it is actually able to get it.