I would like to apologize for my recent statements that called to question the intelligence and integrity of our elected officials here in Montana.

I reacted with the same level of fear and repugnance to the legislation of repealing the medical cannabis law and the subsequent free for all, as if our legislators had stood up and said "Look! We have 30,000 legal minorities in the state of Montana, and we don't want any of them."

In retrospect, this is the message they are sending. However, I do appreciate the difficulty of their job. First, they have law enforcement, saying, "hey, I can't tell a legal minority from and illegal one, create better guidelines for me to follow", and then they have the Billings group saying "legal or not, they are all bad" and the minorities themselves (who just might be a majority given the 62% pass vote the law received in the first place) are scared and marginalized. Like any minority, they may not necessarily know their rights, nor how to speak up as citizens.

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