18 months later, grim times for ex-pot providers

HELENA — When federal agents raided 26 Montana medical marijuana provider homes, businesses and warehouses in March 2011, prominent among those targeted were the owners of Montana Cannabis.

The four partners — Richard Flor, Chris Lindsey, Tom Daubert and Chris Williams — ran one of the state's largest pot businesses, with more than 300 registered customers. Montana Cannabis had locations across the state, a slick website and hundreds of leafy marijuana plants plainly visible through the windows of its massive warehouse on U.S. Highway 12 near Helena.

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