The vandals struck in the middle of the night, hurling Molotov cocktails through the windows of two medical marijuana businesses and spray-painting "NOT IN OUR TOWN" just before the Billings City Council was supposed to take up a ban on any new pot shops.
I forgot to mention. These idiots want to ban marijuana for any legal purpose, all the while never once condemning the violent acts of the nay sayers.

You don't find marijuana users going around burning, smashing and otherwise making violent acts to bring attention to our cause.

This is the up-side-down thinking of people like this man, Sen. Jim Shockley.

Saying the existence of a pot shop causes violence, if not logical. It is the extremist prohibitionists who foment violence. Action should be aimed at them, not us.


Check out this vote.

Project Vote Smart - Senator Shockley on SB 326 - Medical Marijuana Law Amendments
Medical Marijuana Law Amendments


Key Votes:
SB 326

Issues: Drug Issues, Health Issues
Date: 02/24/2009
Sponsor: Sen. Erickson, Ron



Roll no. 628

Bill Passed
(Senate)
How members voted
(28 - 22)


Senator Shockley voted NORead statements Senator Shockley made in this general time period.


Project Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that amends existing law relating to the production and use of medical marijuana.


Highlights:

-Expands the limit on the amount of marijuana that a patient and his or her caregiver can possess to six mature, flowering marijuana plants, eight immature plants, and 3 ounces of usable marijuana each (Sec. 3).

-Ends the prohibition on patients having more than one medical marijuana caregiver at a time (Sec. 1).

-Allows medical marijuana to be issued to treat diabetes, post-traumatic stress disorder, hepatitis C, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, agitation of Alzheimer's disease, nail-patella, and dysmenorrhea (Sec. 1).

-Prohibits the use of medical marijuana to treat anxiety or insomnia associated with a disease or medical condition or the treatment of a disease or medical condition (Sec. 1).

-Prohibits the application for a registry identification card or the possession or use of medical marijuana from being cause for termination of employment, a tenancy, or a rental agreement or for the modification of child custody rights, but specifies that this section does not prohibit landlords from restricting or prohibiting medical marijuana growth on the rental premises (Sec. 3).
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