Please join us this month as Ellen Lenox Smith leads a discussion on living life well with a connective tissue disorder. Ellen will be sharing with us how she and her service dog Maggie were matched and about the process involved with getting and caring for a service dog. She will also talk to us about self advocating and becoming a medical cannabis patient in the state of RI. Ellen Lenox Smith has emerged as a leading voice for patients living with pain in Rhode Island. Mrs. Smith is a resident on a small farm in Scituate, Rhode Island with Stuart, her husband of 42 years. She is a Rhode Island ambassador for the US Pain Foundation and the Arthritis Foundation. Mrs. Smith is also co- director for medical marijuana advocacy  at the US Pain Foundation, staff writer for Pain News Network, and a board member of the Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition (RIPAC).

NEXT MEETING:

Saturday  March 26rd  2pm – 4:30pm

Warwick Public Library

Large Meeting Room

600 Sandy Lane Warwick, RI

After March are next meeting is April 30th at the Warwick Public Library!

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR RI CANNABIS PATIENTS: There are proposed changes to the MMJ program in RI that would add taxes to patients and caregivers who are growing medicine. For patients they are proposing 150 dollars – PER PLANT. The charge for caregivers is more than double that. This is a way for our state to get back tax dollars by taxing the sick for a medicine they rely on to function. You can read about it here http://ripr.org/post/new-tax-marijuana-plants and here: http://ripatients.org/

To stay up to date on the changes and what YOU can do to stop this from becoming our reality please follow RIPAC for the latest information. We do not pay taxes on our pharmacy medications and we should not be paying taxes on the medicine we grow in our homes!

WE ALSO HAVE A MEETING THIS WEEKEND FEBRUARY 6TH 2PM SMALL ROOM – WARWICK PUBLIC LIBRARY ON SANDY LANE.