Projo: Senate panel may urge decriminalizing marijuana possession

March 4, 2010 - 11:29am

01:00 AM EST on Monday, March 1, 2010

By KATHERINE GREGG
Journal State House Bureau

PROVIDENCE — When it wraps up its 3 1/2-month inquiry later this week, a Senate panel is expected to recommend decriminalizing possession of relatively small amounts of marijuana.

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Projo Editorial Board: Decriminalize pot

February 9, 2010 - 12:01pm

Tues Feb. 9, 2010

Projo Editorial Board:

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Projo: Measure would ease marijuana penalties

February 4, 2010 - 2:50pm

By Katherine Gregg

Journal State House Bureau

Nick Horton is a member of the Special Senate Commission studying the decriminalization of marijuana.

The Providence Journal / Connie Grosch

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Ill Fame: New laws outlawing prostitution don’t change the real problem — that it’s women who end up in jail, again and again, and not the men who pimp and traffick

February 4, 2010 - 2:36pm

Reporter

Originally Published in RI Monthly

By Ellen Liberman

Illustration by Alex Nabaum<

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Since Right to Vote in 2006, Over 6,000 Formerly Disenfranchised Rhode Islanders Have Registered to Vote.

January 6, 2010 - 4:42pm

R.I. Change on Voting Rights for Ex-Convicts Wins Praise
By John Hill, Projo

July 30: PROVIDENCE — On Election Night in 2006, Marc Maurer was interested in the results from Kansas because he had a sister-in-law running for office out there, but the returns he checked every 10 minutes were out of Rhode Island.

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