Pubdate: Mon, 04 Apr 2016
Source: Day, The (New London,CT)
Copyright: 2016 Associated Press
Contact:  http://www.theday.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/293

RHODE ISLAND AG TO HOLD FORUM ON LEGALIZING MARIJUANA

Providence (AP) - Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin is 
hosting a forum on marijuana regulation and policy that will focus on 
learning from states that have legalized the drug.

Tuesday's forum at Brown University will include speakers from the 
marijuana industry group the Coalition for Responsible Cannabis Production.

Representatives from states where marijuana is legal will also speak, 
including a representative from the city of Denver, another from the 
Washington attorney general's office and a researcher from the 
Washington State Institute on Public Policy.

Massachusetts State Sen. Jason Lewis, a Democrat who chairs the 
Massachusetts Special Senate Committee on Marijuana, will also speak.

Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo told reporters last month she'd be open 
to letting Rhode Island voters decide whether to legalize 
recreational marijuana. Rhode Island legalized medical marijuana in 2006.
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