This chapter shall be known and may be cited as “The Edward O. Hawkins and Thomas C. Slater Medical Marijuana Act.”
R.I. Gen. Laws § 21-28.6-1
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Known as the The Edward O. Hawkins and Thomas C. Slater Medical Marijuana Act
The act spans §§ 21–21 (22 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Montana Cannabis Industry Ass'n v. State (2016)
Most recently applied in Gaetan H. Bourgoin v. Twin Rivers Paper Company, LLC (June 2018)
P.L. 2005, ch. 442, § 1; P.L. 2005, ch. 443, § 1; P.L. 2007, ch. 72, § 1; P.L. 2007, ch. 495, § 1.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Rhode Island General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Rhode Island statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.