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Rhode Island: Medical Marijuana Patients Doubled In 2 years

Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 07/24/2015 - 08:45

R.I. — The number of patients enrolled in the state's medical marijuana program has exploded in the past two and half years, more than doubling from 4,849 in 2013 to 11,620 today.

As of the beginning of this year, there were 684 physicians in the state providing certifications for medical marijuana patients, up from 512 in 2013, or a 33 percent increase over two years.

But while those numbers have skyrocketed, the number of people the state has devoted to the program's oversight — the licensing of patients and all those allowed to grow marijuana — has not changed.

There are just two full-time equivalents from the department's Office of Professional Licensing assigned to the program — the same number assigned in 2011 when the the department noted in a report that the number "proved insufficient to administer the many unfunded mandates of the medical marijuana program."

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