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Urgent: Ask Gov. Schweitzer to veto S.B. 423, medical marijuana "repeal in disguise"
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Urgent: Ask Gov. Schweitzer to veto S.B. 423, medical marijuana "repeal in disguise"
On Tuesday, the Montana House and Senate will vote on, and likely pass, the conference committee version of S.B. 423, “repeal in disguise.” This version retained most of the unacceptable House changes that turned an imperfect bill into an unworkable one. It will head to the desk of Gov. Brian Schweitzer, who will have 10 days to act.
Please email Gov. Schweitzer and urge him to defend seriously ill Montanans, by vetoing S.B. 423, unless he is willing and able to transform it into a workable regulatory bill. Please also post this link on Facebook, and forward this alert to your Montanan family and friends.
You can also call your senator and representative and urge them to oppose the S.B. 423 conference committee report.
If Gov. Schweitzer receives the bill while the legislature is still in session (April 28 is the estimated last day), he could issue an amendatory veto, proposing changes to the bill for the legislature to make. However, if time runs out, Gov. Schweitzer will have to veto the bill to protect patients.
Unworkable provisions in the bill include the requirements that doctors who issue at least 15 recommendation must be willing to undergo (and pay for) extensive investigatory scrutiny, that caregivers can only grow for three patients and not cooperatively, and that all growing must be done for no compensation.
