Anthony Licata writes, "Over the next biennium, these bills would strip tens of millions of dollars in voter-approved revenue from the Habitat Montana Program and permanently block the program from tapping those funds again."
Missoula County will consider new zoning that would place certain rules on rural marijuana dispensaries and cultivators, including the distance between each storefront and the amount of energy they use.
Les Castran writes, "Legislators recently introduced three bills that propose to eliminate appropriations of marijuana tax revenue dedicated to Habitat Montana and reallocate the funds to other programs."
A year into Montana’s launch of legal recreational marijuana sales, the state Legislature is looking at a series of bills that would revise the rules for the marijuana industry.
Total Arizona marijuana sales in 2022 mirrored the total from 2021, the first year of the legal adult use market, but the paths that each year reached $1.4 billion in sales were strikingly different.
A bill in the Montana House of Representatives would make driving high on THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana, a DUI – no matter what kind of THC or how it was produced.
As proposed, the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation would use the money to bump up the amounts local districts are getting from their mills and coal severance tax.
The group did note some progress in improving arrest protections, increased adoption of adult-use cannabis and low-THC strains from more conservative states, and growing reciprocity programs.