Letter to the Editor: War vetarans file medical marijuana suit in Montana

Editor,

On Aug. 31, Montana’s rollback of access to medical cannabis went into effect.

Thursday, the Montana State Attorney General’s Office was served with a copy of a complaint filed by several citizens, two of whom are Montanan’s called-to-action who served this country in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with a decades-long public servant.

On Aug. 31, the Montana Supreme Court’s decision — effectively killing Montana’s medical cannabis program — became effective.. One part of the new law requires registered providers to choose only three patients each, thereby effectively denying thousands of qualifying patients who are too sick to grow their own medicine access to medical cannabis. This lawsuit seeks various forms of relief, including a request to restrain and prohibit the state of Montana from enforcing the three-patient limit for providers, so that patients can obtain access to medical cannabis.

We are Montanans Ensuring Access to Natural Medicine, a state-based organization aimed at repairing the holes in, and the enforcement of, the recent Montana Supreme Court decision in February on medical cannabis.

The case is titled “JASON BRANDLE, RORY GORDON, MELODY BROWN, BRAD RUSSELL, and MONTANANS ENSURING ACCESS TO NATURAL MEDICINE, a Montana Non-Profit Corporation, v. The State Of Montana,” First Judicial District Court, Helena, Judge Reynolds, presiding. The case number is DDV-2016-754.

For copies of all court filed documents and more information, people can go to http://www.MEANM.org.

Montanans Ensuring Access to Natural Medicine