Overflow crowd fills medical marijuana meeting

Scores of medical marijuana patients, providers and critics were among people who overflowed the Havre City Council chambers Tuesday night at the Council's Ordinance Committee about whether to ban or regulate medical marijuana storefront dispensaries.

The meeting was the third held by the Ordinance Committee about how to handle storefront dispensaries. For nearly two hours, people spoke about medical marijuana and the possible impact of allowing dispensaries.

"My wife is dying and the only relief we have had in the last three or four years from any medications at all is when she got a medical...