Marijuana

Medical marijuana advocate Tom Daubert received a five year probationary sentence and no time in prison on Thursday September 6, 2012.

LIVINGSTON, Mont. (AP) — The Park County attorney has filed a rare charge against a couple accused of selling marijuana because he says their 11-year-old son was involved in the operation. Brett Linneweber has charged 44-year-old James Heilman and 36-year-old Holly Schmitz with criminal production of marijuana and criminal possession of mushrooms...

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — A Montana Highway Patrol trooper who stopped a van for speeding through a construction zone near Bozeman ended up finding 253 pounds of marijuana packed in six duffel bags. Two California women — Xiao Meng Ma and Lan Luo — face federal charges of possession with intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana...

The South American country of Uruguay wants to put drug dealers out of business, and it’s considering a rather novel way of doing it: the government itself would sell marijuana to registered citizens, making it the first country in the world to do so.

A new survey suggests that more teenagers today are smoking pot rather than cigarettes.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Montana Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether people have a constitutional right to sell medical marijuana even though it is illegal under federal law. State attorneys asked the justices Wednesday to rule a district judge mistakenly blocked part of a 2011 law that bans commercial sales of medical marijuana...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Montana Attorney General's office will make its case Wednesday to the state Supreme Court that the commercial sale of medical marijuana should be halted. Assistant Attorney General Jim Molloy will argue that a district judge improperly blocked that portion of the new medical marijuana law passed by the 2011 Legislature...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Flathead Valley landlord has been sentenced to a year in prison for his tenants' medical marijuana operation. The U.S. Attorney's Office says U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy on Monday sentenced 36-year-old Jonathan Janetski to 12 months and a day in prison...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — House Speaker Mike Milburn says he wouldn't change anything from the 2011 legislative session that saw his bill to repeal the state's medical marijuana law vetoed by Gov. Brian Schweitzer. Milburn spoke Thursday night after a panel discussion on the documentary "The Code of the West" that followed the Legislature's marijuana reform debate...

A federal judge has sentenced members of a Miles City family of medical marijuana providers to prison after they pleaded guilty to drug charges.