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By JAYME FRASER HELENA – Sen. Christine Kaufmann, D-Helena, said she doesn't want to be "held in the same regard, the same disgust" as people who have sex with animals. And the Senate largely agreed with a 41-9 vote Wednesday to decriminalize homosexuality. Montana law currently defines "deviate sexual relations" as "sexual contact or sexual intercourse between two persons of the same sex or any form of sexual intercourse with an animal." "For 10 years I've been an equal member of these legislative bodies with you," said Kauf...
Most Montanans would be shocked to see yellow crystals of meth and a glass pipe on a neighbor's kitchen counter. But they wouldn't think twice about seeing an orange bottle of painkillers such as hydrocodone or oxycodone. Yet prescription drugs contribute to more than 300 deaths in Montana each year – nearly a death a day – while methamphetamine killed 20 in 2008. That's why the state Legislature passed two bills last week to combat the growing abuse of prescription drugs. Both bills need approval from the governor bef...
Most Montanans would be shocked to see yellow crystals of meth and a glass pipe on a neighbor's kitchen counter. But they wouldn't think twice about seeing an orange bottle of painkillers such as hydrocodone or oxycodone. Yet prescription drugs contribute to more than 300 deaths in Montana each year – nearly a death a day – while methamphetamine killed 20 in 2008. That's why the state Legislature passed two bills last week to combat the growing abuse of prescription drugs. Both bills need approval from the governor bef...