Advocates Push I-182 to increase access to medical marijuana

Montanans have been voting on initiatives about the medical use of marijuana since 2004 and this year will be no different. I-182 would reverse recent restrictions that limited medical marijuana providers to just three patients, all but eliminating access for more than 12,000 Montanans who have state permission to use the substance.

But the initiative faces intense opposition from a group, Safe Montana, that failed to get its own initiative on the ballot. Safe Montana was pushing I-176 that would have banned all legal use of marijuana in the state. After the secretary of state rejected the...