What a year this has been.

I collected signatures to decriminalize cannabis possession and use in Montana. That failed to make the ballot.

Then came the blitz to get the word out to vote Against SB-423. That, too, failed.

Patients are scared, and for good reason.

Judge Reynolds out of Helena will be hearing arguments on another injunction on the bad bill Jeff Essmann wrote. Mr. Essmann claims there is regulation in his bill but he cannot point to any. NONE. Using fear and paranoia (with a HUGE helping of ignorance and ego) he has succeeded in taking my medicine under SB-423.

The very medicine that has saved my life.

Patients - I do not understand why you won't come out and hold a sign! You can deny you are a cannabis patient, but REALLY? You'd rather live without your meds than hold a sign for a few hours? Than to collect signatures? Than to write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper or lawmaker?????

Honestly, I'm perplexed. You'd allow Cash Hyde to die because YOU are afraid someone might see you sticking up for what you believe? Because you don't want people to know you're on cannabis? Do you cast aspersions on potheads and castigate cannabis users when you depend upon it's qualities to have a normal life? You need to understand PEOPLE MAY DIE because of this and in a small way YOU ARE COMPLICIT.

And I want to apologize to the patients. I didn't fight hard enough. Some gave more than most. Some gave nothing at all.

And now we have nearly nothing to show for those efforts.