Rhode Island

“Legal access to cannabis may reduce the use of multiple classes of dangerous prescription medications in certain patient populations,” according to the results of a new study. Regardless of what some officials in the Trump administration believe, Americans have a …

Although state legislatures all over the country have been apprehensive to pass measures pertaining to the legalization of marijuana, that could all change in 2018, according to a report from Marijuana Business Daily. A number of states are set to …

Published: Aug 31, 2017, 9:12 am • Updated: Aug 31, 2017, 9:12 am By The Associated Press JOHNSTON, R.I. — Police in Rhode Island say they have seized marijuana worth more than $40,000 and are now looking for the man …

Kevin Sabet and Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) are back, using fear-mongering tactics and misinformation to try and sway public opinion against state-approved, regulated weed. The nonprofit group has spent most of the year taking credit for killing a legalization proposal in …

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The Rhode Island Senate just approved a bill to create a 19-member joint legislative commission to study the ramifications of legalizing recreational marijuana in the state. The commission is required to report its findings to the General Assembly on or …

In a last ditch effort to put a recreational marijuana law on the books in Rhode Island, sooner rather than later, a couple of lawmakers have introduced a unique proposal designed to end marijuana prohibition without going all in, right …

For years, Rhode Island has been a medical marijuana pioneer on America’s prohibition-friendly east coast. But since the state’s first dispensary opened four years ago, a restrictive state law has capped the number of legal pot shops at three. But now, as neighboring states like Massachusetts and Maine prepare for full-scale recreational legalization, some Rhode Island lawmakers are finally ready to expand their three trick pony and double the number of state-sanctioned dispensaries.

A Rhode Island textile company will appeal a court ruling that says it discriminated against a medical marijuana user by denying her a job.  In 2014, Darlington Fabrics Corp. denied a paid internship to Christine Callaghan after she revealed that she was legally using medical marijuana as a treatment for migraines.

Callaghan, a master's degree student at the University of Rhode Island, said that the incident forced her to disclose her medical condition and MMJ use to her professors, and delayed her ability to graduate on time.

On Tuesday afternoon, a Superior Court judge in Rhode Island sided with a medical marijuana user who claimed a company decided not to hire her solely for her choice in medicine.
Three years ago, in the summer of 2014, Christine Callaghan applied for an internship at Darlington Fabrics in Westerly, near where she was finishing her graduate studies in textiles at the University of Rhode Island.