Montana Cannabis Opponents Push for Initiative to Undo Medical Marijuana Law
Sponsors of an anti-marijuana initiative that failed to qualify for November's ballot are claiming they submitted enough signatures to put the measure before the voters, but that thousands of names were lost or wrongly rejected by county officials.
The sponsors, a group called Safe Montana that is led by Billings car dealer Steve Zabawa, planned to present Secretary of State Linda McCulloch on Wednesday with a list of more than 3,500 voter signatures they say are valid, but were rejected by county officials across the state. The group separately filed a lawsuit asking a state judge to count those rejected signatures plus an additional 2,588 signatures they say Flathead County election officials lost.
The measure seeks to repeal Montana's medical marijuana law and declare that any drug that is illegal under federal law is also illegal under state law. The effect would be to completely ban marijuana use and possession...
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