Montana voters face full slate of ballot initiatives Tuesday

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana voters will decide on four citizen initiatives, the most in any election since 2010, alongside the top-of-the-ticket races for president, governor and U.S. House.

The ballot measures ask voters to decide whether to ban trapping on public lands, relax the state's medical marijuana law, fund brain research and insert a crime victims' rights law into the state constitution.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA:

Initiative 182 would loosen many of the restrictions imposed on the state's medical marijuana program by a 2011 state law, which was upheld earlier this year by the state Supreme Court. The new law forced the closure of dispensaries by limiting marijuana providers to three patients each.

Under the measure, marijuana dispensaries could reopen and doctors could certify more than 25 medical marijuana patients a year without being flagged by the state Board of Medical Examiners. Post-traumatic stress disorder would be added as a qualifying condition, and police would not be able to conduct surprise inspections of dispensaries.

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