Healthy Difference on 'Today's THV at 5': Medical Marijuana
Stefanie Bryant
June 19, 2009
KTHV-DT (Little Rock, AR)
A growing number of states are not only legalizing marijuana use for chronically ill patients, but they're making it easier for them to get it.
Rhode Island is one of those states.
Lawmakers there overrode the governor's veto of a bill permitting the sale of marijuana for medical use.
It's the third state in the nation to do this.
The state is opening up what they call compassion centers, where they will sell the pot.
Rhode Island Governor Don Carcieri says allowing medical marijuana sends the wrong message to youngsters and creates a public perception that the state is complacent toward illegal drugs.
The marijuana is being sold only to non-profit groups. | 
