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  • February 11, 2008
    By Ian Donnis

    EVERYONE, IT SEEMS knows someone who would like to use medical marijuana to cope with such debilitating illnesses as cancer, AIDS, and multiple sclerosis.

    Medical marijuana proponents plan to seek General Assembly support this session to create an establishment, known as the Compassion Center, which, as the theory goes, would have state Department of Health backing to grow and distribute medical marijuana to approved patients.

    While the outlook for such a measure remains uncertain -- at minimum, it would likely have to overcome a gubernatorial veto -- it would address the glaring shortcoming in Rhode Island's medical marijuana law.

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