MISSOULA - Now that using marijuana as medicine is legal under state law, legitimate patients don't have to fear arrest on state charges anymore. But there's one catch - buying pot is still illegal in Montana.

And that's just one of the gray areas surrounding Montana's new medical marijuana law.

The Montana Medical Marijuana Act, approved by 63 percent of voters in November, allows patients to use marijuana to relieve suffering caused by such diseases as cancer, glaucoma and HIV, or by chronic pain.

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MISSOULA -- Now that using marijuana as medicine is legal under state law, legitimate patients don't have to fear arrest anymore. But there's one catch: Buying pot is still illegal in Montana.

And that's just one of the gray areas surrounding Montana's new medical marijuana law.

The Montana Medical Marijuana Act, approved by 63 percent of voters in November, allows patients to use marijuana to relieve suffering caused by diseases like cancer, glaucoma and HIV, or by chronic pain.

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Now that using marijuana as medicine is legal under state law, legitimate patients don't have to fear arrest anymore. But there's one catch - buying pot is still illegal in Montana.

And that's just one of the gray areas surrounding Montana's new medical marijuana law.

The Montana Medical Marijuana Act, approved by 63 percent of voters in November, allows patients to use marijuana to relieve suffering caused by diseases like cancer, glaucoma and HIV, or by chronic pain.

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