Not any scarier than the already existing liquor stores and bars.

This is not "just down the road" from Melville. It's half a mile, measured on Google Maps. RiteAid is closer to Hathaway, and they have oxycodone. SCARY!!!

Rite Aid selling drugs thru regulatory processes is a bit scary but much less than the herb store in which there is no FDA regulations. Forgot about Gleesons next to the school.

But it won't be regulation-LESS! Just anyone can't walk in ff the street and buy it! These people don't want to be closed down!

General assembly over whelmingly approved it, Gov. Chaffee signed it into law and then Ol Holder threatens to close them down and charge the people with felonies.

Worst US Attorney General ever for me. Supreme Court will never rule on it either until Congress reclassifies pot out of the "Regulated Narcotic Class". It has nothing even remotly similar to those drugs in any way shape or form. Stupidy is the answer of the day on this in my opinion

According to the CDC, "Prescription drug abuse is the fastest growing drug problem in the United States," and on Friday, an FDA panel urged stronger measures to control prescription painkillers. Do you want to have a rational conversation about risk, or is your rhetorical strategy name calling? Citations: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6101a3.htm, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/24/health/24pain.html

This information that you so like to toss around is because of the FDA process. Without the FDA process this type of information would not be accountable. So, what happens with non-FDA quasi-prescription drugs (i.e. medical pot)? How is the impact accounted? Currently, there is no impact accountability studies from regulatory agencies. No rhetoric, just plain common sense and logic.

Not so, East Side. The major study cited by Mr. McDaid is from CDC, a branch of the Dept of Health and Human Services, not the FDA. The DHHS, Dept of Mental Health and Substance Abuse and a host of respected state and local agencies have conducted studies on marijuana use, both recreational and medicinal, as well as prescription pain killers. That such info is publicly available doesn't depend on the "FDA process" as you call it. I would have no problem if the feds recognized marijuana as a drug having therapeutic value and allowed it to be prescribed by your physician, but they refuse to do so, (can anyone say giant pharmaceutical lobby?). It is not a "quasi prescription drug". You need a prescription from a licensed health care provider authorized by law to write prescriptions, just like FDA approved prescription drugs. The regulation of it will be under the Dept. of Health of the individual state, its societal impacts will be studied by all manner of agencies and the info will be publicly available. In the meantime it will be amusing to watch as conservative tea party types (don't take offense, I am not including you in this demographic) who routinley cry "state's rights" and claim the states know best and should be able to make their own decisions on abortion, gun control, marriage equality and health insurance, reverse field and argue states should not be allowed to decide what medicine their licensed physicians can prescribe to their patients

people are gonna get it, so let's make some punk kid rich with no quality control, SMART. why not prohibition again, that seemed to work well. How you think all them mansions in Newport got built. Slaves and Booze and were doing the same with Pot dealers. I say we shut down the giant drug dealers pushing all these pain killers and anti-depressent pills upon us, while naming there own price at a 600% profit. Wake up people. PLEASE

East Side I get your point (and my comment about state's rights was not directed at your concerns) however the compassion centers are a move toward the regulated distribution of the product that is already out there and for which patients now have to rely on care givers who are relatively unregulated except as to quantity. If you are looking for assurances that each patient gets his/her medicine from a trustworthy source who abides by certain production standards and engages in regular testing to assure a uniform product and that each patient knows which strains of cannabis they are getting and its probable effect, this is the way to go. I am sure the regulatory system will need steady improvement and ongoing revision but if we wait for the feds to do it it will never happen and people will simply suffer or buy it on the street. Some well reasoned oversight by the state is better than none. If it's not enough regulation to make you comfortable enough to patronize the place that's your decision and that's fine. But some people are comfortable with it as a natural substance that does not have to treated and processed. I'm sure the compassion centers have no objecton to the DOH conducting random testing to ensure the medicine is pure and not contaminated or laced with anything. For all I know that is already part of the regulations

The People I know that have the license right now, plan to offer other needs such as Herbs and spices, homeopathic etc. Kinda like the Chinese shops in Little China in NY. Though I am sure others will go the health store way also. I agree, do not think you could maintain it in a State out size anyway.

Think also the State should look at the way Colorado Has handled regulating this, as they seem to have a very good system developing on all of this there.

Tivertoneon

Yea kind of like following someone home from an ATM, Banks, Credit Unions, CVS, Rite Aid, Grocery Store, Radio Shack, Wal Mart, Convenience Store, Liquor Store, Best Buy, Sports Game, Car Dealership, HR Block, Restaurant, Just walk around a nieborhood, etc etc etc.

Not really an excuse or logical at all now is it.

should hide all the ATM's then so we don't follow the elderly and rob em

Not an Investor, but someone who has friends who are dying in the most painfull way imaginable and really need this. They are the forgotten in this every single time.
Won't go into details, however for me if it helps one person eat a meal because of chemo, or gives them one nights peacefull sleep, I will allways support this.