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Article: R.I. House, Senate to hear medical marijuana bills
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- March 22, 2005
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Mary-Catherine Lader
University Wire
03-22-2005
(Brown Daily Herald) (U-WIRE) PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- As two bills in support of medical marijuana use approach hearings in the state legislature, sponsors say the current incarnation of the Rhode Island Medical Marijuana Act has garnered greater support than in any previous year.
The bill's stated purpose is "to protect patients with debilitating medical conditions, and their physicians and primary caregivers, from arrest and prosecution, criminal and other penalties." Qualifying medical conditions include cancer, multiple sclerosis, AIDS and illnesses that cause severe symptoms alleviated by marijuana use, such as nausea or seizures. Sufferers ...
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