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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Montana: Supreme Court Upholds Gutting of Medical Marijuana Law 🌿Montana: Supreme Court Upholds Gutting of Medical Marijuana Law
The Montana Supreme Court on Thursday upheld almost all of the GOP-controlled Legislature's 2011 gutting of the state's medical marijuana law.
The high court, in a 6-1 decision, ruled that the restrictions placed on medical marijuana by the Montana Legislature in 2011 are a "rational response" to the rapid growth in medical marijuana patients from 2008 to 2010, reports Mike Dennison at MTN News. Never mind that the stuff actually works, unlike most harsh, toxic Big Pharma products; that just couldn't be why the program was so popular, now could it?
The number of authorized medical marijuana patients in Montana rose from about 1,000 in 2008 to more than 30,000 in 2010. Dispensaries opened around the state, just as was intended by the people when they, in 2004, voted to approve marijuana as medicine.
One part of the 2011 restrictions that was struck down in Thursday's ruling was the ban on medical marijuana...
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