HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Advocates for medical marijuana in Montana have begun gathering signatures for an initiative seeking to undo legislation that they say overly restricts the use of the substance.
Backers of the measure have just nine weeks to collect the 24,175 valid signatures needed to place the initiative on the November ballot but said during a news conference at the state Capitol on Tuesday that two dozen field staffers were already collecting signatures across the state.
If approved, the measure would lift the three-patient limit put in place by Senate Bill 423, establish licensing fees to pay for administering the program and include post-traumatic stress disorders among the conditions permissible for treatment using medicinal marijuana.
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Bobby Caina Calvan ~ Associated Press via WyomingNews.com ~
