PROVIDENCE -- The Thomas C. Slater Compassion Center opened just two weeks ago, but it has nearly doubled the number of patients who have opted to designate the dispensary as a source of their medical marijuana.
Chris Reilly, Slater's spokesman, said that the center had about 375 patients when it opened on April 19 and that number has quickly jumped to 708 patients. State law allows patients to designate two sources to provide them with medical marijuana.
"Patients have bee waiting over four years to have a safe, accessible place to obtain their medicine,'' Reilly said, ``We're happy to see people entrusting their care to us.''
At the same time, the number of patients in the medical marijuana program has jumped to 5,386, up 205 patients from a month ago.