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Pot revenue bill a choice between drug prevention or conservation and recreation

by MICAH DREW Daily Montanan
| March 4, 2025 7:00 AM

The primary question Senate Majority Leader Tom McGillvray, R-Billings, posed to the Senate Business, Labor and Economic Affairs committee this week was a choice between people or public lands and wildlife. 

“Do you care more about children, teenagers that are having struggles with addictions, pregnant mothers that are using marijuana that’s causing injuries to their babies?” McGillvray asked. “We have to, as a society, decide — are people more important or trails, parks and wildlife?” 

“What’s the choice? Is it children, or gophers?”

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