Newsbrief:
Montana
Medical
Marijuana
Initiative
Ready
for
Signature
Gathering
4/23/04
The Montana Secretary of State's office and the Montana Attorney General's office have approved the language and legal sufficiency of a medical marijuana initiative. The way is now open for initiative organizers with the Montana Medical Marijuana Policy Project (http://www.montanacares.org) to begin the signature-gathering phase of the effort. Organizers must gather some 20,000 signatures, including at least 5% of voters in half of the state's counties, by June 18. The Montana Medical Marijuana Act, which would amend state law and which will be known as Initiative 148 (I-148), would:
Visit http://www.montanacares.org/pdf/MT_Init_148_2004.pdf to read the text of the ballot measure online.
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