Montana passes measure to expand medical marijuana

MATT VOLZ

Associated Press

HELENA — Montana voters approved an expansion of medical marijuana, one of four citizen initiatives on the ballot, which is the most in any state election since 2010.

The other ballot measures asked voters to decide whether to ban trapping on public lands, fund brain research and insert a crime victims’ rights law into the state constitution.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA:

The passage of Initiative 182 means that marijuana dispensaries will be able to re-open after they closed in August to comply with a state Supreme Court order.

The high court upheld a 2011 state law after a fi...