Legislative Update
Montana Senate Passes Medical Marijuana Bill
Sen. Ron Erikson's Senate Bill 326 would broaden Montana's medical marijuana laws.By Courtney Lowery, 2-24-09
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The Montana Senate voted 28-22 to approve a bill that would expand the state’s medical marijuana law to include it as a treatment for more ailments and to increase the amount patients and caregivers can possess.
Senate Bill 326, sponsored by Sen. Ron Erickson, D-Missoula, would add the following diseases to the “Debilitating medical conditions” for which medical maijuana is allowed in the state: diabetes, post-traumatic stress disorder, hepatitis C, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, agitation of Alzheimer’s disease, nail-patella syndrome and dysmenorrhea. It would also increase the legal possession limits per patient or caregiver to no more than six mature, flowering marijuana plants, eight immature plants, and 3 ounces of usable marijuana each.
The bill passed second reading on Saturday between then and today, picked up three more supporters.
It will now await transmittal to the House of Representatives.
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Comments
Marijuana is not the drug you have been told it is since it was made illegal in the US in the 1930's.
Marijuana is natures best. It is a miracle drug, whatever miracle means to you. It can kill off cancer cells, it can produce fuels, it can make rope, cloth soft as cotton and MUCH cheaper, it can be used to create plastics. The list goes on and on... The government force fed you that crap about Marijuana because if it were legal EVERYTHING would have hemp in it in some way and since it grows naturally there is no way to 'control' it there by no way to turn a HUGE profit on it.
Our government is based on one (1) single principle at is core - MONEY.
Like Native Americans believe, money is not what sustains us in reality, only in the perception that our governments have created. We don't NEED money to survive, but hemp and marijuana went against that, so they outlawed it and shoved a bunch of propaganda down our throats via Federally funded (thus Federally defined ideals) school.
Hemp, marijuana is wonderful in so many ways if you open your mind and actually think about it for yourself and not believe everything you hear. Do the research, the internet is at your disposal and you would see it is no "devil weed" or even a "drug" in the definition we know for it.
Without MJ a LOT of people would be suffering ten fold then what they are now. I know first hand.
Open your mind, your soul will follow!
WE THE PEOPLE!!!