Sacramento News & Review, 16 Jun 2011 – The Former Talk-Show Host Opens a New Medical-Cannabis Dispensary in Midtown to Fanfare, Controversy “There won’t be a cure for MS in my lifetime. Period. It’s not happening.” Montel Williams, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999, accepts this. He accepts it when he gets up […]

Bozeman Daily Chronicle, 01 Jul 2011 – Caregivers Preparing to Close Shop Meet Judge’S Ruling With Cautious Optimism At 5 p.m. Thursday, Chuck Campbell didn’t know if his medical marijuana store, Montana Buds, would close forever or be open for business the following day.

The Chico News & Review, 16 Jun 2011 – Joel Castle Says He Prefers Bars to Condition He Not Smoke Marijuana Joel Castle would rather go to prison for nine months than spend the next three years on probation. That’s how serious he is about his medicine.

Helena Independent Record, 01 Jul 2011 – Reactions were mixed Thursday to a district judge’s ruling temporarily blocking parts of a 2011 medical marijuana law from taking effect today. Those in the medical marijuana business were pleased that District Judge James Reynolds of Helena issued a temporary injunction blocking parts of the new law.

Capitol Weekly, 16 Jun 2011 – For years, there have been regular pushes in the Legislature and at the ballot box to legalize or decriminalize marijuana consumption, possession and cultivation. This year was no exception: Earlier this month, legislation aimed at allowing local authorities to decide whether to prosecute growers for misdemeanors or felonies was […]

Helena Independent Record, 01 Jul 2011 – A Helena district judge on Thursday temporarily blocked from taking effect today some of what the medical marijuana industry deemed the most onerous parts of the more restrictive law passed by the 2011 Legislature.

Bozeman Daily Chronicle, 16 Jun 2011 – The head of the Montana Department of Justice’s narcotics bureau said Wednesday that crime has increased in 78 percent of the state’s jurisdictions since medical marijuana became legal in Montana.

Hungry Horse News, 01 Jul 2011 – A district court judge in Helena granted a preliminary injunction that blocks four key provisions in Montana’s new medical marijuana law, which went into effect on July 1.

Wall Street Journal, 16 Jun 2011 – Emails Show ATF Director Involved iI Troubled Operation Tied To Agent’s Death Lawmakers released documents showing that senior federal officials were closely involved in a troubled gun-enforcement operation that came to light after the death of a U.S. border agent in a shootout in December.

The Union, 02 Jul 2011 – In this era of viral political discord where neither side is open to the ideology of the opposing party, my encounter with Sheriff Keith Royal and District Attorney Cliff Newell at the zoning board’s council meeting to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in Nevada County was encouraging.