Thursday, February 7, 2013
State legislators propose full legalization of marijuana, which would be taxed and regulated like alcohol.
It is time again to end a useless prohibition, according to two legislators who have proposed legalizing marijuana. Rep. Edith Ajello and Sen. Donna Nesselbush announced Wednesday they have proposed legislation to legalize marijuana possession in Rhode Island for adults age 21 and older. Pot would be regulated and taxed similar to alcohol under their proposal. The legislation follows last year's decriminalization of marijuana possession in Rhode Island, due to go into effect this spring. “It is time for Rhode Island to put the failed policy of marijuana prohibition behind us and adopt a more sensible approach just as our nation did with alcohol 80 years ago,” Ajello said in a prelease. “Regulating marijuana like alcohol will take marijuana…
Thursday, January 24, 2013
The proposal to guarantee marriage rights to all Rhode Islanders now moves onto the state Senate.
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Thursday, January 24
The Rhode Island House of Representatives voted 51 to 19 on Thursday to allow same-sex couples to marry in Rhode Island, the Legislature announced in a release. The bill’s primary sponsor, Rep. Arthur Handy, who has introduced the bill for each of the last 11 years, said the measure is about justice and equity for same-sex couples, but is also emotional and personal for so many who have worked for years for marriage equality. “Obviously, this issue is about fairness and allowing all Rhode Islanders to have equal access to the rights and responsibilities that come with marriage, but marriage is about so much more than legal protections," Handy said in a release. "My wife and I have been married since 1997, and as we’ve worked together to …
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The former House Minority leader was arrested Saturday for marijuana possession, his second arrest in less than a year.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
State Rep. Bob Watson was arrested Saturday in South Kingstown for possession of marijuana, his second such arrest in less than a year. Watson, a Republican from East Greenwich,"appeared highly intoxicated" and was slurring his words, according to a police report, when officers encountered him just before midnight at Washington County Veterinary Hospital in South Kingstown. The representative had apparenly collided with a snow bank, and his car was missing its front, driver's side tire. Officers saw a pipe commonly used to smoke marijuana in his car, according to the report, and also allegedly found a plastic bag containing the substance. In April 2011, Watson was charged in New Haven, CT, with possession and driving under the influence. …
Jack Baillargeron
3:45 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013
I agree, time to do it and llet the chips fall where they may. You have more control of a product when it is legal then illegal anyway. So lets try it. For clarity I have always been in favor of Medical pot, and on the fence on the totality due to the fact I wanted to see realistic ways they were going to regulate it. I.E. DCYF charging parents with abuse for smoking around young children or … more ›