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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 Rhode Island Lawmakers Want to Legalize Recreational Marijuana 🌿Rhode Island Lawmakers Want to Legalize Recreational Marijuana
If successful, the effort would make Rhode Island the ninth state to allow recreational pot
Rhode Island lawmakers announced on Wednesday that they will try to legalize pot, again.
For the seventh consecutive year, lawmakers will introduce a bill that would allow adults to consume marijuana recreationally. But advocates are hopeful that the proposal might finally get a vote this time, in part because of the wins weed had in the 2016 election—some right in Rhode Island’s backyard.
Both Massachusetts and Maine legalized adult-use pot on Election Day, joining the western states of Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, California and Nevada. “Now that Massachusetts has passed and made it clear the way things are headed,” says the Marijuana Policy Project’s Mason Tvert, “these guys are going to want to jump in.” Tvert says that his organization, which promotes legalization, also has hopes of pushing legislation in Vermont and possibly other New...
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