Montana marijuana businesses can breathe a bit easier after local elections Tuesday, when voters rejected a proposed ban on adult-use businesses in the state’s most populous county.
State residents also approved 12 cannabis-related tax measures in various counties, signaling further voter approval of the marijuana industry.
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In Yellowstone County, which is home to Billings and is easily the state’s most heavily populated county, voters nixed a proposed ban on recreational marijuana sales.
The ballot question lost, with 58% of voters opposed, according to data from the Montana Secretary of State’s office.
In addition, various sales-tax measures for both adult-use and medical marijuana – all amounting to about a 3% tax – were approved in Big Horn, Blaine, Carbon, Gallatin, Lake, Lewis and Clark, Powell, Ravalli, Richland, Roosevelt, Rosebud and Silver Bow counties.
“It will give more stability to the industry here,” Rich Abromeit, the president of the pro-marijuana
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