Breaking news: Medical marijuana industry to buck more regulation

Medical marijuana industry to buck more regulation

MATT GOURAS,Associated Press Writer

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The medical marijuana industry made it clear Tuesday it will buck an overhaul of the 2004 voter-approved initiative that made medical marijuana legal and that led to a backlash of concern amid skyrocketing enrollment.

A legislative committee voted Tuesday to send the overhaul — a long list of proposed changes packaged into three bills — to the 2011 Legislature.

The hard look was prompted by a jump from a few thousand medical marijuana cards last year to 23,500 medical marijuana cards at...