Rhode Island Challenges Federal Ban By Authorizing Cultivation And Sale Of Marijuana
Originally published, July 1, 2009, by University of Pittsburgh Law School publication, The Jurist . Despite the glamorization on the hit Showtime series ‘ Weeds ’, flashy documentaries on CNBC delving into the business side of California’s multi-billion dollar annual cannabis industry derived from Californian’s unprecedented 13-year old legal access to medical cannabis products—qualifying patients in the state (and there are hundreds of thousands of them currently) can access high-quality medical cannabis via 24/7 vending machines in cities like Los Angeles—is Rhode Island the little state that is saying ‘yes we cannabis’ the loudest via their legislature ? ‘Californication’ Of Cannabis While California is clearly at the vanguard of implementing major legal and policy changes in seeming conflict with the federal government’s 72-year old cannabis prohibition laws, in fact little ol’ Rhode Island is on the precipice of effectively breaking the federal government’s ban on the cultivation and sale of cannabis by joining New Mexico as the only states favoring medical cannabis laws to have state-sanctioned medical cannabis cultivators and retail outlets for qualifying medical patients.
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Ending The Bipartisan War On Pot!
For far too long the federal government’s war on cannabis consumers has been a bipartisan effort. At worst, politicians of both political persuasions have proactively lobbied for tougher pot penalties (or actively opposed efforts to amend such laws); at best, leaders of both major parties have done nothing at all .
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