LEAP |
LEAP |
THC Finder |
Billings Gazette |
Richard Flor, 68 died Wednesday night after having two heart attacks while being transported to federal prison to serve a five-year sentence for medical marijuana |
Opposing Views |
A Montana landlord with no criminal history has been sentenced to a year in prison for a medical marijuana operation run by his tenants.
Billings Gazette |
Richard Flor, 68, was sentenced to five years in prison for growing medical marijuana in Montana |
A former medical marijuana provider in Montana is appealing his five-year federal prison sentence on charges of maintaining “drug-involved premises.”
Missoulian |
U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy ruled on Friday that Montana’s medical marijuana providers can be prosecuted under federal law even if they are strictly following state law |
A federal judge has ruled that Montana’s medical marijuana program doesn’t shield providers of cannabis from federal prosecution.
CBS News |
Bye-bye, Second Amendment? The U.S. Department of Justice is notifying federally licensed firearms dealers that they aren’t allowed to sell guns or ammo to anyone who smokes pot — even medical marijuana patients.
KTVQ |
A study on the effects of Montana’s tough new medical marijuana law, adopted by the Republican-controlled state Legislature last year, shows the number of patients and providers has dropped since the makeover of the law passed by voters in 2000.
Photo: Billings Gazette |
Flowering cannabis plants at Montannabis, Inc., Billings, Montana, March 16, 2011. |
Montana on Tuesday appealed to the Montana Supreme Court a judge’s ruling which blocked tight new restrictions on medical marijuana on the state, and will argue there’s no constitutional right to sell cannabis for a profit. The new restrictions have been described by some patient advocates as a de facto repeal of Montana’s medical marijuana law, passed by 62 percent of the state’s voters in 2000.
Photo: Eliza Wiley/Helena Independent Record |
Senator Dave Wanzenreid (D-Missoula) spoke Tuesday in the secretary of state’s office to announce the Initiative Referendum 124 petition campaign by Patients For Reform – Not Repeal. |