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--- Quote ---(CNN) -- The Billings, Montana, City Council will take up the issue of regulating medical marijuana on Monday night in a meeting expected to be intense in the wake of the firebombings of two of the city's medical marijuana storefronts in the last two days.

The southern Montana city's dispensaries legally provide marijuana to medical patients who use it for maladies from glaucoma to nausea to lack of appetite. In the latest incidents, the phrase "Not in our town" was spray-painted on the businesses, police say.

Police Sgt. Kevin Iffland said Big Sky Patient Care was hit early Sunday morning and Montana Therapeutics was the target early Monday. Both had a rock thrown through the front door, followed by a Molotov cocktail. In both cases, Iffland said, the fire was put out swiftly and damage was not extensive.

Iffland said Billings police are working with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and that the two firebombs are being handled as felony arsons carrying sentences of up to 20 years in prison and a $50,000 fine.

The attacks on the storefronts come as the Billings City Council considers a moratorium on licensing new dispensaries while it works up a regulatory ordinance.

Sixty-two percent of Montanans voted in 2004 to allow caregivers to grow marijuana for qualified patients, but the state law said nothing about distribution. In that absence, municipalities and county governments began licensing the establishments on their own.

But, Iffland said, Billings was ill-prepared for the number of applications and has very little regulation in place. Billings, he said, is a town of about 100,000 and has had nearly 90 applications for medical marijuana storefronts -- and some residents are angry. He fully expected a heated council meeting.

Meanwhile, investigators are still reviewing evidence in the firebombings and are working with one of the businesses that has surveillance video but is reluctant to hand over the tape because of privacy concerns.

While the investigation is ongoing, police have stepped up patrols in the areas where the medical marijuana storefronts are located, Iffland said.
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"Psychedelics often produce psychotic and even violent behavior in those that have never used them" -Timothy Leary

Ursus:
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--- Quote ---Medical marijuana stores firebombed in Montana
By the CNN Wire Staff
May 11, 2010 -- Updated 0153 GMT (0953 HKT)

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Anne Bonney:
I'm becoming more and more convinced that these types of people, along with the evangelicals, are determined to drive this country back to the mindset of the '50s.  In their selective memory they see it as the 'golden age' of 'Murica and they're the only true, real 'Muricans.   Non-believers and immigrants are infidels, abstinence only is the ONLY way and they LOVE the failed drug war cuz it allows them to tell others how to live and locks up lots of 'off color' people.

It's the same mentality as programs.......the end justifies the means.

M_Hilton:
the 1850's you mean >.>

try another castle:

--- Quote from: "M_Hilton" ---the 1850's you mean >.>
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Nah, the 1850s were just fine. The stamp tax act didn't go into effect until the 1930s.

I think it was used most often as a tea back then, mostly for its analgesic properties.


As for firebombing a pot club... what an overreaction. Perhaps there was some confusion? Although the word "cannabis" looks NOTHING like "OB/GYN". Maybe illiteracy is a new prerequisite for terrorists in this country.

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