From the Missoulian State Bureau:
The Montana Senate and House each approved by large margins the latest changes to a bill to repeal the state’s voter-passed medical marijuana law and replace it with strict provisions that would make limit the product’s availability and squeeze the profits out of it.
The Senate voted 34-16 [...]
It seems as though every week we write that a decision is due any minute on changes – if any – to Montana’s 2004 voter-approved medical marijuana law. But this week it’s really true – there are only eight days left in the 2001 Montana legislative session.
Here’s how the Associated Press [...]
Lots of stuff happening today in Helena that could end up affecting cops and courts.
Missoulian State Bureau reporter Chuck Johnson (@c_sjohnson) just posted this on Twitter:
Senate Judiciary Chairman Terry Murphy says he doesn’t think Senate will pass House bill repealing medical marijuana law.
And a news release from Attorney General Steve [...]
Legislation sponsored by Rep. Mike Milburn, R-Cascade – which would undo the voter initiative that, with some help from the feds, eventually led to an explosion of medical marijuana use in Montana – has one more procedural vote in the House before heading to the Senate.
Saturday’s floor comments on the bill may [...]