Although yesterday (4/20/14) was Easter Sunday, 4/20 is also known as “weed day” and it’s been called that since the 1970s. 420 was a supposedly police code for someone smoking pot.
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Back in 2004 Montana voters approved Initiative 148 (I-148) which allowed the medical use of marijuana (they should have called it I-420). It was approved by a whopping 62% to 38% vote. I voted for I-148. After it was approved, the state basically screwed up the implementation of the initiative, the state legislature got involved, and the Feds came in and put the hammer down on many medical marijuana providers.
It was a mess. Meanwhile Washington and Colorado approved recreational use of marijuana and will be reaping the benefits of the taxes.
On Friday I read a Lee Newspapers story about a Billings businessman named Steve Zabawa who “has proposed an initiative for the November 2014 ballot that effectively would ban the possession, use, cultivation, trafficking and transportation of marijuana in Montana.”
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