RI Dept. of Health Calls for New Compassion Center Applications

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Monday, October 04, 2010

HEALTH NEWS by GoLocalProv Health Team

The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) has reissued a call for applications for operation of a medical marijuana compassion center. Nonprofit corporations that wish to apply may download a revised application at http://www.health.ri.gov/programs/medicalmarijuana. The deadline to submit the application is 12 noon on Friday, November 12, 2010.

The application describes what applicants must do to be considered for a compassion center registration certificate. It has no page limit. Applicants can find a summary of other changes here. The application review and scoring process remains the same and will include a public comment period. HEALTH expects that it will take between four and six months to review all applications.

“Our goal has been, and continues to be, assuring the safest and most effective compassion center for patients and the public,” said Director of Health David R. Gifford, MD, MPH. “We want to keep this process moving.”

Applicants may submit questions about the application process to [email protected] until October 15. HEALTH will post answers to frequently emailed questions on its Web site after that date.