HELENA — Medical marijuana cardholders in Montana have nearly tripled and the number of providers has increased by 17 percent since a 2016 ballot initiative and 2017 state Senate bill loosened restrictions, according to a report filed by a state agency. But the state totals are not an all-time high, no pun intended, as Montana […]
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Montana Gets Ready to Take in First Medical Marijuana Taxes
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — State revenue officials are working on the roll-out of the latest medical marijuana program with a tax on the drug — the first of its kind in the state — which could increase the agency’s capacity for handling cash. Legislators passed SB333 this spring, adding a number of regulations to the […]
Nine States Will Vote for Marijuana Today
The Green Party’s candidate for US president will be on the ballot in 45 states today; green will be on the ballot in nine. Voters in Arkansas, Florida, and North Dakota will decide if they want medical marijuana legal in their states. In Montana, there’s a ballot initiative to redress state legislature action in 2011 […]
Supreme Court Won’t Hear Appeal on Limits to Montana Medical Marijuana Law
HELENA — The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it won’t hear an appeal challenging a Montana law that limits medical marijuana providers to selling the drug to a maximum of three patients each, dealing a blow to advocates who are attempting to delay enforcement of the law. The nation’s high court let stand a Montana […]
Montana Supreme Court Asked to Delay State’s Medical Marijuana Restrictions
HELENA, Mont. — The Montana Cannabis Industry Association is asking a district judge to further delay enforcement of stringent new Montana medical marijuana restrictions that are to go into effect Aug. 31. The association on Tuesday filed a motion with Montana’s 1st Judicial District Court in Helena for a stay until the U.S. Supreme Court […]
Montana Marijuana Campaigns Spending Big Money to Try to Get on the Ballot
With just two more weeks to gather signatures, three marijuana-related ballot issue campaigns are hitting the road for a final push. Tens of thousands of dollars have been raised by the groups, and those with the largest war chests are reporting the most success. To get on the November ballot, the campaigns must gather 24,175 […]
Montana Supreme Court Delays Medical Marijuana Restrictions
The state Supreme Court said Monday it will delay enforcement of the severe medical marijuana restrictions it has upheld until Aug. 31. In February, the court ruled in favor of provisions of a 2011 state law that limited medical marijuana providers to selling the drug to a maximum of three patients. The Montana Cannabis Industry […]
Montana Group Wants Initiative to Make Medical Marijuana Illegal
Safe Montana founder Steve Zabawa announced his support of a court ruling that curtailed the state medical marijuana program while reinforcing his own campaign to repeal it altogether. At a public appearance on Tuesday, Zabawa praised the Montana Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a 2011 bill that pulls back on the marijuana program. Among the […]
Court Ruling Expected to Shut Down Most Montana Medical Dispensaries
HELENA – Marijuana dispensaries will have at least two weeks to prepare for severe rollbacks to Montana’s medical marijuana law, though most will likely have to shut down, the head of an advocacy group that tried to block the restrictions said Friday. On Thursday, the Montana Supreme Court upheld nearly all of the provisions of a […]
Montana Supreme Court Severely Limits the Sale of Medical Marijuana
HELENA — The Montana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that medical marijuana providers should be paid for their services, but it clamped down on commercial sales of the drug by limiting providers to no more than three patients each. The court’s decision upheld other provisions of a 2011 state law that represents one of the most […]
Ballot War Over Legal Marijuana Breaks Out in Montana
BILLINGS — Two competing groups are racing for signatures in hopes that voters will bring change to the already tumultuous legal landscape that is Montana marijuana. Ballot initiative campaigns have been working across the state in search of support, but the battle isn’t centered in the hazy mountains of western Montana. Rather it’s based in […]
Montana Pushing For Court Ruling That Would End Medical Marijuana Sales
HELENA — Montana is in the fifth year of a legal fight to severely restrict how medical marijuana is grown and distributed, even as attitudes in other parts of the nation appear to be shifting toward more tolerance for the drug. Attorneys for the state argued Wednesday before the Montana Supreme Court to lift a […]
Last Word: The Lesson of Montana Is Simple: The Legalization War Hasn’t Been Won Just Yet
Montanans can be stubborn people. I know this from two years as Editor of a newspaper in Great Falls back in the early 1990s, and what stuck me then was two things; People in Montana are extremely proud of their state and most would find it hard to live anywhere else; They are over-the-top concerned […]
Will Montana Be the First State to Go Backward on Medical Marijuana?
BILLINGS, Mont. — Gone are the flashing green neon lights advertising $200 ounces of pot. Gone are the caravans of cannabis doctors who signed up hundreds of people in a single day. The medical marijuana business in Montana boomed after voters legalized it in 2004. At one time, this state of only a million people […]
Montana Attorney General Wants Injunctions Against Medical Marijuana Overturned
HELENA – In a brief filed with the Montana Supreme Court this week, Attorney General Tim Fox argued that a Helena district judge erroneously blocked three provisions of the state’s strict 2011 medical marijuana law. Fox and Assistant Attorneys General Stuart Segrest and Matthew Cochenour filed the brief Wednesday in support of their appeal asking the […]
Marijuana in Wonderland: Making Sense of a Judge’s Anti-Cannabis Ruling
By Barry Gainsburg “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ” — Lewis Carroll, from Through the Looking Glass Last week, the U.S. District Court in Northern California declined to declare the federal classification of marijuana […]
Montana Judge Blocks Key Medical Marijuana Law Provisions
By Kyle Meagher District Judge James Reynolds of Helena has struck down enforcement of multiple key provisions in Montana’s state medical marijuana law. The judge permanently changed the 2011 medical marijuana law this past Friday — a law that many considered too restrictive.
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Montana Medical Marijuana November 2 SUMMARY: Sixty-two percent of voters approved Initiative 148 on November 2, 2004. The law took effect that same day. It removes state-level criminal penalties on the use, possession and cultivation of marijuana by patients who possess written documentation from their physicians authorizing the medical use of marijuana. [Read More…] Montana […]
