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Steve Elliott
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Steve Elliott, a journalist since 1982, edits Toke of the Town, Village Voice Media's site of cannabis news, views, rumor and humor.

Warning Label Rejected For Montana Medical Marijuana

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Montana legislators in the state House have rejected a bill requiring warning labels on medical marijuana. House Bill 389, sponsored by Rep. Pat Noonan (D-Ramsay), fell by only one vote, 50-49.

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March 5th, 2011 | Posted in FrontPage,Politics | Read More »

Pot Shop Gives Free Joints For Canned Food Items

Dan Parr of Happy Pharmer’s Phamily in Butte, Montana, checks the final count of 2,200 pounds of food and baby items donated to the Butte Emergency Food Bank in exchange for free marijuana.

A Montana medical marijuana dispensary collected more than a ton of food by offering their members a free joint if they donated canned goods.

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February 12th, 2011 | Posted in Headlines,US News | Read More »

The Great ‘Marijuana’ Debate: What’s In A Word?

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Ah, the great “marijuana/cannabis” controversy. Some activists get quite worked up about it, but any pejorative baggage surrounding the term “marijuana” is, at this point, really nothing more than an increasingly irrelevant historical footnote from the distant past.

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January 30th, 2011 | Posted in Feature,FrontPage,Headlines,History,Politics | Read More »

Montana House Speaker Wants To Repeal Medical Marijuana Law

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Montana’s new Speaker of the House, Republican Mike Milburn, wants to repeal the state’s medical marijuana law. Milburn, who claimed the law is allowing cannabis to become too available, is sponsoring a bill what would repeal it, despite the fact that an overwhelming 62 percent of Montanans voted for the law in 2004.

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January 8th, 2011 | Posted in FrontPage,Headlines,Justice,Politics | Read More »

New Mexico OKs More Plants For Medical Marijuana Producers

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The New Mexico Department of Health on Friday announced changes to its medical marijuana regulations, one of which will add to the supply of legally grown marijuana by increasing the number of plants licensed producers can grow from 95 to 150.

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December 18th, 2010 | Posted in FrontPage,Headlines,US News | Read More »

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