Medical marijuana

A 2006 Big Sky Conference championship ring belonging to a former University of Montana quarterback was seized in a series of raids on medical marijuana providers this month.

Federal agents seized more than $184,000 from bank accounts associated with a former University of Montana quarterback and his medical marijuana and automotive detailing businesses.

Montana lawmakers are uncertain whether they should come up with a backup plan should their crackdown on medical marijuana be struck down in the courts or rejected next year at the ballot box. The state's tough new medical marijuana law is under attack by the industry both in the courts and with an initiative asking voters to reject the new law...

One member of a Miles City family of medical marijuana operators has pleaded guilty to federal drug charges as her husband undergoes a mental evaluation. Sherry Flor, Richard Flor and their son Justin Flor are charged with conspiring to grow and distribute marijuana throughout Montana...

Montana's attorney general is objecting to a U.S. government policy that bars firearms dealers from selling guns or ammunition to medical marijuana users. Steve Bullock writes U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in a Monday letter that the federal government should act carefully "when its laws and policies involve conflicts with those of the states."

The secretary of state says that medical marijuana advocates have collected enough signatures to let voters decide whether they like the Legislature's new crackdown on the industry.

The deadline is Friday for organizers to turn in signatures for proposed ballot initiatives that aim to repeal new state laws that restrict medical marijuana and expand eminent domain powers. Rose Habib, coordinator for an initiative sponsored by the Montana Cannabis Industry Association, says she is confident that enough signatures have been gathered to put the question to voters in the 2012

On September 21st, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives sent an open letter to all federal firearms licensees, in which anyone holding a medical marijuana card issued by the State of Montana can be denied the purchase of firearms and ammunition. I spoke with the Research Director of the Independence Institute in Golden, Colorado, David Kopel about the constitutionality of this p

Officials say the number of medical marijuana users and providers continues to decline after the July implementation of a tougher new law. The Department of Public Health and Human Services told an interim committee of lawmakers on Monday that the number of cardholders had dropped by about 15 percent through August...

Two Missoula men connected to a medical marijuana operation have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to manufacture the drug. The U.S. attorney's office says 40-year-old Shawn Slattery and 42-year-old Andrew Umhey pleaded guilty Wednesday during a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah Lynch.