The Senate Passed the Bill on a 28-22 Vote

After the bill was sent to the House for consideration from the state Senate Tuesday in Montana it got final and totally approved agreement to let medical-marijuana patients better access to the drug.

Since the arrangement won interlocutory exhortation Saturday by a 25-24 margin, the Senate passed the bill on a 28-22 vote, picking up some additional support.

Being sponsored by Sen. Ron Erickson, D-Missoula, Senate Bill 326 proposed to add some extra changes to the medical-marijuana law. It is not officially forbidden to bring forward that medical marijuana is legally approved for certain patients suffering from chronic pain to smoke or make use of weed to relieve the pain or otherwise treat their disease, such as glaucoma.

Senate Bill 326 carried some serious changes and supplementations concerning the fact that licensed growers got the right to possess six "mature" plants rather than just six plants; the same as the amount of marijuana that a patient or "caregiver" can obtain increases from one ounce to three ounces; it presupposes that examinees might get the drug from more than one licensed caregiver, even the list of diseases, which are treated by means of marijuana was legally prolonged and is used as the medicine to Alzheimer's disease, diabetes and post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Due to certain changes, worked out by the bill in the program it will work better for those who need it.

Twenty-one Republicans and Democratic Sen. Sharon Stewart-Peregoy of Crow Agency voted against SB326 Tuesday. Sen. Bruce Tutvedt, R-Kalispell, changed his yes vote from Saturday to a "no" on Tuesday.

Six Republicans - John Brueggeman of Polson, Sens. Jerry Black of Shelby, Dave Lewis of Helena and Terry Murphy of Cardwell, Aubyn Curtiss of Fortine, Rick Laible of Darby, - joined 22 of the Senate's 23 Democrats in voting for the bill Tuesday.

Curtiss and Laible and Sen. Ken Hansen, D-Harlem, switched their vote to "yes" Tuesday after voting against the bill on Saturday.