Governor Gina Raimondo has signed legislation, House Bill 7142, to make post-traumatic stress patients eligible for medical cannabis treatment and to accelerate access to those patients in hospice care.
Members of both chambers previously overwhelmingly approved the measure. Full text of the bill is available here.
The law takes immediate effect.
Post traumatic stress patients and those in hospice care ought to be able to legally access cannabis in instances where their physician recommends it. Cannabis is a botanical product that is objectively safer, and potentially more effective, than the litany of pharmaceutical drugs it could replace.
NORML would like to thank those of you who contacted Governor Raimondo and urged her to sign this measure into law.
Further information about this and other pending legislation is available from the Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition.
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws – Advocacy Campaigns
