Belgrade News, 07 Sep 2010 – Council also to consider budget, other business Belgrade city officials will hold a public hearing Tuesday a proposal to ban public use of medical marijuana in the city limits, according to city officials.

Bozeman Daily Chronicle, 29 Aug 2010 – It took a few headlines around the state about how local communities were coping with the explosion in the use and sale of medical marijuana, but some Montana lawmakers are finally getting serious about regulating this burgeoning industry at the state level. On Tuesday, a legislative committee in Helena voted to OK proposed medical marijuana regulations that will be sent to the Legislature in January.

The Billings Gazette, 30 Aug 2010 – We’re encouraged by last week’s legislative action moving the process forward to tighten Montana’s medical marijuana regulations. Granted, this is just a little step in what will be a long legislative effort that could bring more restrictions to the state’s medical marijuana program that voters placed into law in 2004.

The Daily Inter Lake, 29 Aug 2010 – The wheels are in motion for changes to Montana’s dubious medical marijuana industry (or should we say racket?), and changes are definitely in order. A legislative committee has approved a series of measures that would make it more difficult to get a medical marijuana card, set more stringent conditions for those who grow and sell medical marijuana, and make it easier for the state to track and regulate the industry.

Helena Independent Record, 27 Aug 2010 – Three former employees of a Missoula medical marijuana business that has helped thousands of patients get their state marijuana card sued its owner Thursday, alleging that he ordered hundreds of card applications to be falsified. The wrongful-discharge lawsuit filed in state District Court in Missoula also accused Jason Christ of the Montana Caregivers Network of verbally abusing its employees, using company funds for personal expenses, driving a company van while smoking marijuana and creating a "hostile work environment" that essentially forced the three workers to quit June 18.

Montana Standard, 25 Aug 2010 – DEER LODGE – Papers have been filed in Deer Lodge district court by 22 Deer Lodge residents to stop operation of a medical marijuana production center. Named as defendants are Gary Chilcott, Brian Chilcott, Talyn Lang and Zoo Mountain Natural Care, Inc. Also named is the City of Deer Lodge.

Montana Standard, 25 Aug 2010 – I am conservative but believe natural drugs should be legal. On the paper’s front page Aug. 17 (stop pot shops), Commissioner Dave Palmer relates information that it’s become easy for high school students to buy marijuana in Butte. Like many politicians around the country, he seems to be unaware of the fact that anyone wanting pot can obtain it within a half hour and that includes high school students. This has been the situation for at least the last 15 years. Anyone who spends any time with all their constituents would know how prevalent pot has become in the past several decades.

Montana Standard, 26 Aug 2010 – For the second time in a week, Butte-Silver Bow commissioners failed to pass a moratorium on medical marijuana business licenses in the county. At a special meeting Wednesday, this time around commissioners did not discuss and debate the issue at length. They got right to a vote that ended in a 6-6 tie.