I understood his question and you are correct. It does not matter if you have a prescription for marijuana in the same way that a prescription for stimulants or painkillers would negate the positive test result. As long as marijuana is federally schedule 1 (or more likely as long as it’s scheduled at all) it won’t matter if you are using recreational or medically when it comes to employment.

Don’t know anything about showing your card and the facility will not show results for that (plus if they just left it off, wouldn’t that be obvious to the employer? Hey, we paid for you to do a 5 panel drug test including Marijuana, how come you didn’t test for the marijuana?)

And they can absolutely not hire you or even fire you later even if you have a medical card. There has been talk about passing legislation to protect medical or rec users from being fired or not hired based on marijuana usage, but to my knowledge it hasn’t gone anywhere. Hell, the RI Senate introduced a bill recently that would have back door returned us to prohibition.

Do you have any plates you can put on the car?

Why should he stay if he can’t have the impact he wants? The seat is unlikely to go to Fung (though he may move or use his wife’s property to run) or another conservative, so why not give a younger progressive a shot at the seat?

I get that at first glance this looks like a loss or Cicilline pulling a money grab but I don’t see it that way. He has a real chance to affect political and social policy as well as philanthropy in RI for the next 20 years. Given his track record, I think that’s a good thing and he can probably cherry pick his successor in the house. And like I said before, there’s a good chance that person would be on the younger side and lean more progressive.

TLDR why would you want to be a congressman if you thought you could have an equal or greater impact on the issues that matter most to you by taking a different job (and be relatively confident that your seat won’t immediately flip to the other side)?

Not really a RI thing, but places do fried oysters.

I’m more partial to raw bar (and it’s way more common in RI), but Benjamin’s in Newport has pretty good oysters Rockefeller/oyster stew.

He doesn’t live in the district. He could move, but as it stands today he could not run for this seat.

I’m fucking nice.

Can’t speak highly enough of this place. My doofus hound mutt once cut her cornea and once sliced open her paw pad bad enough to need stitches while trying to escape the yard and both times Mass/RI was great. Both cases needed follow up, meds, cone, etc…and both times they were great and got us right in. Our regular vet was closed once and less then helpful the other time.

Send it to zippo then.

If it’s overfilled, leave it open overnight. Then try again in the morning with less fill. You may also look into replacing the flint or extending/replacing the wick.

If there is some other issue causing it not to light, zippo will fix the lighter but you will have to reach out to them.

Source: I carry a zippo brass armor pipe lighter with me every day.

Build mixed use on the land, like every freaking study they’ve paid for has recommended.

That said, they should keep the current height and zoning restrictions (also recommended by the studies they’ve paid for) unless there is a compelling reason for an exemption. And axe Fanes stupid tower, he doesn’t have the experience to execute a project of that scale. Give someone who knows what they are doing a shot at that parcel.

Climate is pretty static though.

/s

Bigfoot is blurry.

Technically you aren’t allowed to have anything other than factory rear tint unless you have a prescription from a doctor. You may be able to convince an inspection station to sign off that your front windows are also factory tinted, but ymmv on finding a shop to sign off on that.

It’s a really stupid law and really has no meaning because you could register a vehicle in the state with front tint if it came that way from the factory/dealer — the state can’t force you to remove factory tinted glass but be prepared to get pulled over all the time.

For example, my parents are snow birds and bought a vehicle in Florida that came with 70% tint on the front and the rear is completely blacked out. They have since registered and inspected the car here and don’t have issues. If buying a vehicle out of state is a loophole to the law then it doesn’t really have the intended effect.

East Bay Oyster Bar

Bristol Oyster Bar

Any Newport Restaurant Group restaurant especially The Boathouse, Hemenways, 22 Bowens, or The Mooring.

DeWolfes Tavern

I know a guy.

Ughh, I don’t have the energy to explain this again. It’s so much more complicated then what you describe and the cost increases aren’t coming from corporate greed or the war in Ukraine. The US is literally pumping out NG as fast as possible.

The cost to get that NG out of the ground and deliver it to your house or your closest generation station is the problem.

Good luck here my dude. Make sure you take a left where Almacs used to be.

Sorry you missed it and sorry if people are giving you hate. If you need help paying for utilities, there are resources available. DM me if you want, and I’ll help you locate them.

If you are like most of us and this added cost is seriously a problem, but you can absorb it, know most of the western world is with you or has it worse. Look into home heating costs year over year in Europe. Then look at the UK.

RI does have it bad, we are one of the most expensive energy markets in the USA, but it’s as bad or worse for most of the world.

Welcome to Rhode Island.

If you are just noticing this now, it’s hard for people to empathize.

The energy company spent ad money explaining the issue and alerting their customers. The State Dept. of Public Utilities held hearings on the matter and did its best to alert consumers.

We get it, it’s annoying, lots of people literally can’t afford it. But this all goes back to October. So if you are just catching on now then people are rightfully going to think you are uninformed or ignorant of the problem. The added cost in fact has nothing to do with the local energy providers and has to do with the regional energy grid managers passing on cost.

So yeah, it sucks. But this exact post happens twice a week and most of the time from people who don’t understand anything other than , “My EnERgy BiLL wEnt UP MERRR!!!”

Becky’s in Middletown

Lots of ego and name calling around here. Long on feelings, short on facts.

This city is going to end up with a raw deal if they go with Fane. They will have to give him even more tax breaks. Then if he does get the tower open, it will probably end up like the tower in Portsmouth. It’ll open right before or in the middle of an housing slump or recession and sit mostly vacant for a long time.

Yeah having lived in Boston and watched all the towers go up and housing costs continue to rise, it’s simply not factual.

Housing is not the same as guns and butter. You can’t just build an expensive good and expect it to decrease overall demand on a sector if the damand is at a lower price.

There are examples closer to home too. How’s that fancy tower and community In Portsmouth doing? I think the tower might finally be at full occupancy.

Please explain to me how these luxury units will help low and middle income families.

I believe he came to them unsolicited. The just giving away for what will likely be an eyesore full of luxury condos is what bothers me.

Study after study shows that this type of project does nothing for the overall housing stock and sustainability. The developer can just pay extra fees or fines and not include the number of planned “affordable” units.

The state needs to focus on building housing for low and middle income families, that’s what is needed.

We need more housing in the state. This tower isn’t really the answer.

Besides that, Fane doesn’t have experience with a project of this scale and he is getting a sweetheart deal for some seriously prime property.

The City can and should look for better from elsewhere.