Billboard to Be Unveiled in Providence TODAY Informs State Officials – Who Are Considering Investing in a New Stadium – of Another Way to Attract New Businesses, Good Jobs, and Young Professionals to Rhode Island: Regulating and Taxing Marijuana
TODAY at 11 a.m. ET –Â Marijuana business community members will join Regulate Rhode Island at a news conference in front of the billboard located at 90 Orms St.
[Press Release] PROVIDENCEÂ – Regulate Rhode Island will unveil a billboard in Providence TODAY that informs state officials – who are considering investing tax dollars in building a new stadium in the city – of another way to attract new businesses, good jobs, and young professionals to Rhode Island: regulating and taxing marijuana.
The ad campaign will be launched at 11 a.m. ET with a news conference in front of the billboard at 90 Orms St. (SE corner of Orms and State streets). Regulate Rhode Island Director Jared Moffat will be joined at the event by Paul DeFruscio, CEO of Jennifer Rose Associates LLC, a company that specializes in packaging marijuana-infused products, and Marc Shepard, co-founder of New England Cannabis Conventions.
The “Field of Dreams”-themed ad features stadium lights shining on two young professionals standing among a small field of marijuana plants, and it reads, “If we build it, they will come… It’s time to establish a regulated marijuana market in Rhode Island.”
“State lawmakers have repeatedly said that rebuilding our economy is their biggest priority,” Moffat said. “It’s time for Rhode Island to invest in a more sensible marijuana policy. Establishing a regulated marijuana market for adults would attract entrepreneurs, create jobs, and raise revenue.
“Regulating and taxing marijuana would be a homerun for Rhode Island.”
Legislators are currently considering S 510/H 5777, the “Marijuana Regulation, Control, and Taxation Act,” which would end marijuana prohibition in Rhode Island and replace it with a system in which marijuana is regulated and taxed similarly to alcohol.
More information about the proposed stadium is available at http://wpri.com/2015/04/15/pawsox-want-4m-a-year-from-ri-for-prov-stadium.
Source:Â Regulate Rhode Island is a coalition of citizens and organizations committed to ending the failed policy of marijuana prohibition and replacing it with a system in which marijuana is regulated and taxed similarly to alcohol. For more information, visit http://www.RegulateRI.com.
