Friends,
The Montana primary election is in just a few days (Tuesday, June 8th). If you are able to vote, it is very important that you do so. Really. Do it. Put it on your calendar and do it. The people we elect this year will make decisions about Montana marijuana laws on your behalf in less than a year.
We can help. Check out our latest version of the 2010 Montana NORML Voter Guide. Here’s a few quotes:
Eileen Carney, running in HD1 (Libby), says: “We spend too much money trying to make people not do what they want to do. It would be better to allow them to use marijuana responsibly, tax them like alcohol, and only put in jail the ones who are not able to control their habit — just like alcohol.”
Ken Peterson, running in HD46 (Billings), says: “I do not believe that recreational marijuana should be available.” (Good luck with that.)
Cheryl Wolfe, running in HD11 (Polson), says: “My goal is ultimately not the taxation of marijuana, but to stop the waste of our resources enforcing destructive and discriminatory criminal prosecution of marijuana use.”
Ellie Hill, running in HD 94 (Missoula), says: “[Tax & Regulate for all adults?] Yes. According to Montana NORML, the State of Montana could benefit from $24,000,000 in direct tax revenues related to licensing fees for producers and retailers, payroll taxes, and the additional jobs created by regulating the use and sales on marijuana.”
For much, much more, download the latest copy of the 2010 Montana NORML Voter Guide. The Guide documents dozens of candidates’ public statements on medical marijuana and the creation of a legal market for all adults. If you care about this issue, you’ll download it and vote.
So, you know what to do. Inform yourself, and vote.
Now, the news:
Montana Marijuana News
- Highway patrol on lookout for marijuana-addled drivers
- Other states facing medical marijuana explosion
- Medical marijuana’s popularity catches many off-guard
- Medical marijuana — easing pain, raising fears: ‘Fixes’ in works for state’s pot law
- 9 percent of Montana parolees carry medical marijuana cards
- Entrepreneur in pot industry using best business practices
- Medical marijuana business has far-reaching economic impact (this is the article for which many of you helped provide sources – thank you!)
- Banks and medical marijuana caregivers debate over state and federal laws
- State pot policy in bad need of fix
- Great Falls bans medical marijuana businesses outright
- Citizen coverage of the work towards legislative consensus on medical marijuana, i.e., how will the Montana medical marijuana law change in 2011? (Thanks Ardyce!)
- Cannabis caravans fuel medical-pot boom in Montana
Marijuana News from Beyond Our Border
- Video: Fox News Freedom Watch’s Judge Napolitano w/ Paul Armentano, the Deputy Director of NORML
- California: Cannabis workers unionizing in California
- Denver: Speakers for SAFER and the (very important) Women’s Marijuana Movement speak out
- U.S. Supreme Court: Remaining silent doesn’t count.
- Denver: Beer brewery cleverly publishes fake ‘caregiver’ ad, 35 Cents/oz
- Colorado: Marijuana T-shirt Mall Protest
I’ll be out of town for the next 6 days without internet access (wandering in the desert!), and we have volunteers updating our Facebook page and Twitter.
While I’m gone, all of you who are able will have gone to the polls (or filled out your absentee ballot) and voted for someone who you want to represent you in Helena next year. Without an engaged citizenry, we will not create positive change.
In Liberty.
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