Montana NORML News
Friends & Countrymen,
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This week, it’s our sense that more articles are starting to accept marijuana as an industry, a category oflegitimate commerce in which respectable people engage. Check out the Rolling Stone and New York Times articles below. While there’s a medical marijuana firestorm to prepare for in next year’s legislature, it seems to me that we have the momentum for now.
Yes, people are still getting nailed with criminal charges for marijuana every single day in Montana (which must stop), but society is getting more comfortable (even as we collectively squirm and protest) with the idea ofcannabis as commodity, not contraband.
However, there is much to be concerned about. I’m told (by a reliable source) that some Montana patients and caregivers are selling “medical marijuana” into the black market (regular people) virtually every day — and unknowingly selling to undercover narcotics cops. These cases are like ammunition stockpiles. Just imagine if there are a flood of medical-to-black-market busts just before the legislature begins. Efforts to restrict medical marijuana vigorously (or even, repeal the law!) will have that much more ammo.
Montana NORML will push to “get past medical” in the coming legislature. In the meantime, I hope cardholders exercise some prudent restraint to avoid fueling the coming storm.
And now, the news…
Montana Marijuana News
- Libby City Council and marijuana growers met this week to hash things out, so to speak.
- A new marijuana store opens in Billings this week.
- Great Falls considering three options for marijuana. #1 is total ban (in fear of federal law). Or, detailed, strict regulation. Here’s the details (PDF). Public meeting April 13th.
- Marijuana Education Day in Missoula, 4/19. (what can you donate to the silent auction?)
- Global Marijuana March in Missoula, 5/1. (can you hang posters? Can you run a march in your next of the woods?)
- The City of Havre would like to hear from you concerning medical marijuana.
- “Cannabis Conventions” hit the road in Montana this week and next. Check the schedule.
- Stevensville to pass interim pot ban. (this link may expire)
Other Marijuana News This Week
- Rolling Stone: From California to downtown Detroit, there’s a green revolution sweeping across the nation — and it’s changing the weed business forever
- New York Times: Legal-Marijuana Advocates Focus on a New Green
- Reason: In the war on drugs, the drugs are winning. Time to legalize marijuana.
- Massachusetts: Considering taxation & regulation of cannabis.
- Colorado: Could legalization hurt the booming medical pot business?
- Colorado: 1,000 medical marijuana applications, every day.
- Colorado: 340 vendors on display the Colorado Cannabis Convention
- Washington: Governor allows more professionals to OK medical marijuana.
- California: Outlaw pot growers fear legalization.
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Onwards and upwards.
go Montana! legalize it baby!