Kent County Daily Times, 14 Jul 2010 – COVENTRY – An application has been filed to open a medical marijuana dispensary or compassion center in Coventry. Starting March 18 and ending May 17 the Rhode Island Department of Health was accepting applications for the operation of up to three "medical marijuana compassion centers."

The Providence Journal, 06 Jul 2010 – PROVIDENCE — A group of developers, residents and artists that have helped transform a section of the Valley neighborhood into a thriving community are upset with a proposal to establish a medical-marijuana compassion center near them. The state Health Department has yet to select operators for up to three centers for people in the state’s medical-marijuana program, but officials are reviewing 15 applications and they are bound by a state law to select an operator for the state’s first marijuana dispensary no later than July 30.

The Providence Journal, 28 Jun 2010 – PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The old warehouse complex in the Valley neighborhood has been many things to many people over the past 150 years. It was once home to the James Hanley Brewing Co., and Harry Houdini, the renowned escape artist, paid a visit and successfully broke free from a locked beer cask. In recent years, the fortress-like site has served as the Capitol Records Center, a storage facility for reams of archived state documents.

Barrington Times, 17 Jun 2010 – Seeks Permit for Facility on High Point Avenue PORTSMOUTH – A Middletown man hopes to be one of the 15 applicants chosen by the state to open a medical marijuana sales center – and he hopes to win Portsmouth’s approval to open the marijuana sales and growing operation in the industrial park.