Montana - Passed! :smile:
Oregon - Failed
Alaska - Failed info here

Slowly, but surely we can take back America! Even the initiatives defeated have close votes.

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Medical marijuana approved

HELENA - Montanans suffering from certain medical conditions may be able to legally smoke marijuana to ease their symptoms come January 1.

The Medical Marijuana Act passed by a 63 to 37 percent margin Tuesday with 375 of 881 precincts reporting. The new act will protect patients, their doctors and their caregivers from state and local arrest and prosecution for the medical use of marijuana.

Teresa Michalski of Helena couldn't be happier. Michalski once lived in fear that her late son, Travis, would spend the last few months of his short life in jail for using marijuana during the last stages of Hodgkin's disease.

"I knew the people in Montana were compassionate and I could count on them," said Michalski, a fifth-generation Montanan.

U.S. Deputy Drug Czar Scott Burns, however, warned Montanans that federal law trumps state law, and said during a recent visit to Montana that no state initiative permitting the medical use of marijuana can circumvent the federal law prohibiting the posession and use of the drug.

"There's no safe harbor," Burns said.

But Paul Befumo, treasurer of the Marijuana Policy Project of Montana, said he's "elated" that the measure passed.

"People don't have to worry about being criminalized any more," he said.

Proponents say smoking marijuana relieves nausea, increases appetite, reduces muscle spasms, relieves chronic pain and reduces pressure in the eyes. It can be used to treat the symptoms of AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis and glaucoma, among other diseases, they say.

Medical marijuana has been approved by voters in Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. In Hawaii, a law was passed by the Legislature and signed by the governor in 2000. In Vermont, a law was passed by the Legislature and allowed to become law without the governor's signature in May 2004, the Marijuana Policy Project reports.

The Montana measure's campaign was financially backed by the national Marijuana Policy Project out of Washington, D.C.

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UNDATED, Ore. - Oregon voters have rejected an expansion of the state's 1998 medical marijuana law. It would have allowed patients to possess up to six pounds of pot a year.

The current limit is three ounces.

Measure 33 would also have created state-regulated dispensaries and required the state to subsidize pot for low-income patients.

Measure 33 trailed 58 percent to 42 percent With 89 percent of the statewide vote counted. That's 870-thousand-202 voters rejecting the measure and 632-thousand-975 voting for it.

An alarmed White House drug czar John Walters joined Oregon district attorneys in opposing the law.

Longtime medical marijuana advocate John Sajo says the measure failed because they were trying to make some relatively big changes with a small budget.

[friendlyfriend]

thanks shortes I was looking for this info as i woke up today.

Yesterday was a strange night... but at least today I am sure we live in a conservative country laden with fraud, big business, antiquated measures and most disturbingly an ominous foriegn policy that will lead american citizen's into further stryfe as times passes by.


America divided is but a Sign of the times......

Congrats on montana's victory over the man !

I sure wish alaska would have won !

[TheSource]

Any kind of win is a good step in the right direction. Thanks for the info

[BushyOldGrower]

What does the Montana law say? I live here and I don't even know. BOG

Maybe I better go to montananormal.com?

Happy developement in my area of the world...

[Urban Spaceman]

Yea Bog, I've got a very good friend in Montana,and as it stands Montana has some of the strictest MJ laws I've ever seen, very scary. Yep you should ck out normal.Hopefully with this election things should change, but I never trust the government anyways. just my 2 cents. PEACE

[BushyOldGrower]

Soon all BOG Seeds will be grown in Canada anyways so if medical mari is ok for a couple old fuks I can stay here and openly run BOG Seeds legally. As long as I can grow stash at home and work on a new line now and then I will be happy here. BOG

Geeze the site is different.

[Liberty Balance]

Oh WELL Now what to do ???????
Peace ,
Liberty

[pistillwhipped]

I'm an Oregonian and currently a cardholding mj patient. I was sorry the vote on the measure failed, but..... we were asking for soooo much. Instead of raising the bar incrementally, the way the measure was written, almost anyone could prescribe you MJ (not that I have a problem with that...it just goes further than most people are ready to accept), for example....a Physicians assistant, a Holistic Dr, Nurse practitioner......

There were other flaws related to it's failure (IMHO) as well. We would have been able to hold up to 6 pounds of weed per patient, have 10 plants/ per patient budding at any time, and unlimited numbers of plants in veg...........gawrsh....why didn't we just ask for the keys to the White House? Oh.....Yeah.....never mind......

[BushyOldGrower]

Baby steps work best...I quite agree. BOG

Never give up on climbing the mountain of ignorance though...