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Regulations for Recreational Marijuana Program Headed To The Senate


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After more than a week of debate, a single framework to regulate Montana’s forthcoming recreational marijuana program is headed to the full Senate for consideration. It passed another hurdle Wednesday evening after being reshaped by a special legislative committee.
The Senate panel whittled three ideas passed by the House into one package to regulate recreational marijuana for adults 21 and older.
“Looking at the different bills that they had, trying to combine everything together into one workable product, I think for Montanans we’ve done an incredible job,” said Hamilton Republican Sen. Jason Ellsworth, the committee chair.
The policy moving to Senate debate includes a 20% tax on sales of recreational marijuana with the option for counties to vote for their own additional tax. The bill also includes a provision that will allow for recreational marijuana sales only in counties that voted to approve legalized adult-use of cannabis last November. Counties ....

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Broadband proposals advance in the Legislature


Expanding broadband infrastructure has emerged as a top priority for both Democrats and Republicans in the 67th Legislature, and several bills, along with hundreds of millions of federal COVID relief dollars, are poised to potentially remake access to high-speed internet in Montana.
Sen. Jason Ellsworth, a Hamilton Republican sponsoring legislation to create a massive program to subsidize broadband expansion in the state, said his interest in the subject grew out of his own business experience.
“We were only a few miles from town and couldn’t get access even though broadband was literally in the ground in front of us, but there was no point to access it,” Ellsworth said in an interview last week, referring to the Bitterroot Gun Garage he owns outside Hamilton. “And that’s been a frustration our business has had for eight to 10 years.” ....

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