Claim: Montana joins other states with vaping product bans .
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Cannabis in Montana
text: as a qualifying condition; Glendive journalist Anthony Varriano's proposal to legalize recreational cannabis for adults 21 and over; and Billings businessman Steve Zabawa's proposal to require Montana's drug policy to follow federal policy, which would put an end to the state's medical marijuana program.. On November 6, 2016, Initiative I-182 passed with 58% approval. Montana’s Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) oversees the state’s medical marijuana program, and they opted to use the Marijuana Enforcement Tracking Regulation and Compliance system.In May 2017 Governor Steve Bullock signed into law SB333, which further regulates the medical cannabis industry by adding

title: Cannabis in Montana
text: Cannabis in Montana In the US state of Montana, cannabis is legal for medical uses, but has been illegal for recreational use since 1929. Medical cannabis was legalized by ballot initiative in 2004. The senate and congress passed a repeal to tighten Montana Medical Marijuana (MMJ) laws which failed getting the Governor's signature. However, with the new provisions, providers could not service more than three patients. In November 2016 Bill I-182 was passed, this revised the 2004 law and allowed providers to service more than three patients. Cannabis was banned in Montana in 1929, following a Health Committee meeting which

title: Cannabis in Montana
text: mandatory testing and seed to sale tracking.. SB 333 also imposes a 4% tax on medical marijuana beginning July 1, 2017 and decreases to 2% beginning on July 1, 2018. Cannabis in Montana In the US state of Montana, cannabis is legal for medical uses, but has been illegal for recreational use since 1929. Medical cannabis was legalized by ballot initiative in 2004. The senate and congress passed a repeal to tighten Montana Medical Marijuana (MMJ) laws which failed getting the Governor's signature. However, with the new provisions, providers could not service more than three patients. In November 2016 Bill

title: Electronic cigarette
text: some states tax e-cigarettes as tobacco products, and some state and regional governments have broadened their indoor smoking bans to include e-cigarettes. As of 9 October 2015, at least 48 states and 2 territories banned e-cigarette sales to minors. In November 2018 the FDA announced new steps to curb youth vaping while still ensuring the adults who would benefit from electronic cigarettes still had access to a healthier nicotine delivery system. Sales of flavored tobacco products will be limited to adult only stores and online vendors with the exception of tobacco, mint or menthol electronic cigarettes that will remain for

title: Tobacco-Free Pharmacies
text: force in 1996 when the Quebec Order of Pharmacists ("Ordre des pharmaciens du Québec") directed its members to stop selling cigarettes, declaring the practice to be inconsistent with the professional mandate of pharmacists. The National Assembly of Quebec followed up with a statutory ban in 1998, making it the third province in Canada to do so through legislation. Similar bans were enacted in Nova Scotia (2000), Nunavut (2004), Newfoundland and Labrador (2005), Prince Edward Island (2006), Northwest Territories (2007), Alberta (2009), Yukon (2011), Saskatchewan (2011) and Manitoba (2013). British Columbia is the only remaining jurisdiction in Canada to permit the

title: Vape shop
text: business. In late November 2015, Bill 44 was passed by the National Assembly, which regulates e-cigarettes as tobacco products. It bans using e-cigarettes in vape shops, bans indoor displays and advertising, and bans sales on their websites. Vape trade shows have an array of product vendors, seminars, social interactions with other vapers, parties, gifts, vaping contests, and other activities. By 2015, the number of vaping trade show organizations arranging vape trade shows had grown to 41. This includes 90 trade shows, with 6 set for 2016 in 8 countries. Vape shows were organized in 26 US states. They ranged from

title: Regulation of electronic cigarettes
text: branding that resembles food, candy, or beverage items as being misbranded and using false advertising, which is illegal under the Tobacco Control Act of 2009 (specifically sections 903(a)(1) and 903(a)(7)(A) of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, ). Effective 8 August 2016, all US states will follow the same, uniform federal guidelines. With an absence of federal regulations, many states and cities had adopted their own e-cigarette regulations, most commonly to prohibit sales to minors, including Maryland, Kentucky, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Utah, Wisconsin, and Colorado. Other states are considering similar legislation. Several US cities and states have

title: Frank Artiles
text: session, Artiles sponsored legislation that made electronic cigarettes illegal for minors to use. Though the bill initially contained a provision that Artiles hoped would result in a statewide ban on e-cigarettes, an amendment sponsored by fellow Republican State Representative Bill Hager stripped the provision from the bill that "would have prevented local governments from creating their own rules on e-cigarettes and tobacco products." Following a unanimous vote in support of the bill, Artiles remarked, "At the end of the day, the state of Florida has acted before the federal government in protecting our children from contaminating their lungs with vaporizing

title: Tobacco-Free Pharmacies
text: Star Market, Stop & Shop, Target, Walgreens, Walmart and various independent pharmacies. A number of the Massachusetts municipalities listed extend the tobacco sales ban in pharmacies to include the sale of "nicotine delivery products", including electronic cigarettes. "Nicotine delivery products" are defined as manufactured products that contain nicotine, but not tobacco, and are not FDA approved. On February 5, 2014, CVS Pharmacy, (7600 locations) announced that by October 2014 its stores will stop selling all tobacco products including cigarettes and cigars. In a statement explaining the change, CVS President & CEO Larry J. Merlo said, "We came to the decision

title: National Firearms Act
text: since they cannot be regulated as interstate commerce. However, this law does not apply to a firearm that cannot be carried and used by one person, a firearm that has a bore diameter greater than 1 ½ inches and uses smokeless powder, ammunition that uses exploding projectiles or fully automatic firearms. While it is likely to face a court challenge (and specifically intended to provoke one), this Montana law would put firearms accessories such as silencers actually made in Montana, marked "Made in Montana", and sold only to Montana citizens outside federal jurisdiction and not subject to the $200 federal

title: Montana Firearms Freedom Act
text: and Wyoming. Attempts to do so have also been made in Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington. On July 16, 2009, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives published an open letter to Montana Federal Firearms Licensees, clarifying the bureau's position on the Montana Firearms Freedom Act. According to this letter, "...because the Act conflicts with Federal firearms laws and regulations, Federal law supersedes the Act, and all provisions of the Gun Control Act and the National Firearms Act, and their corresponding regulations,

title: History of Montana
text: drug officials made multiple raids in the state. Outlets dropped from 4,848 in March 2011 to 383 by November 2011. Court action ensued, and in the summer of 2011, a state District Court judge blocked parts of the law from taking effect. Advocates for medical marijuana sought to put a new referendum on the statewide ballot for 2012. The court case is on appeal to the Montana Supreme Court. History of Montana This is a broad outline history of the state of Montana in the United States. Archeological evidence has shown indigenous peoples lived in the area for more than

title: Montana Meth Project
text: according to the strictness and duration of the states' laws. "Montana’s methamphetamine precursor law went into effect July 1, 2005. The Montana law is stricter than the CMEA in several important respects." Montana’s workplace drug testing results showed a 69.4% decrease in positive tests for amphetamine. Montana's Attorney General and the MMP attribute Montana's decrease in adult meth usage to the MMP. However, the ONDCP reported: "The primary reason for this positive trend is the enactment of various State laws...which implemented restrictions on transactions involving products containing certain chemicals (primarily, ephedrine and pseudoephedrine) that can be used to make methamphetamine."

title: Natural American Spirit
text: Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. In March 2017, it was reported that Reynolds American Inc. and its Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Inc. segment would remove the terms "natural" and "additive-free" from its controversial Natural American Spirit cigarette product labeling and related advertising and promotional materials, as part of a new agreement with the Food and Drug Administration. The agreement, dated January 19 2017 and disclosed in a public filing in a class-action lawsuit, doesn’t

title: Cannabis in Montana
text: was described in the local paper as "great fun", during which a representative justified the ban due to marijuana's effects on Mexicans: "When some beet field peon takes a few rares of this stuff... he thinks he has just been elected president of Mexico so he starts out to execute all his political enemies." In 1985, the Kurth family of Fort Benton turned to cannabis growing to save their failing beef ranch. Their efforts were successful, and after reducing their debts they decided to scale back their cannabis business, but were then threatened by drug traffickers they had done business

title: Smoking in India
text: of Maharashtra. Other regions that have bans are: Import of e-cigarettes and e-liquid is permitted in India, but involves varying permissions. While four states have limitation on distribution of e-cigarettes, there is no restriction in any of the remaining Indian states. Currently, this product is not a drug as per the Drugs & Cosmetics Act, 1940, and neither does it come under the jurisdiction of the tobacco department as it does not contain tobacco. The market largely consists of small retailers and importers, but with a few organized players such as ITC with their brand EON, Godfrey Philips with the

title: Regulation of electronic cigarettes
text: smokers and not at those seeking to quit. The District Columbia Circuit appeals court, on 24 January 2011, declined to review the decision "en banc", blocking the products from FDA regulation as medical devices. In April 2014, the FDA proposed new regulations for tobacco products, including e-cigarettes. The regulations require disclosure of ingredients used in e-cigarette liquids, proof of safety of those ingredients, and regulation of the devices used to vaporize and deliver the liquid. The FDA proposed regulation would ban the sale of e-cigarettes with nicotine to any individual under 18 years of age. In August 2014, attorneys general

title: Smoking ban
text: bans are also in force in New Zealand, the Isle of Man and the Australian states of Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, Northern Territory and New South Wales. The New Zealand ban was subsequently successfully challenged in court on two occasions, resulting in a law change to maintain it. The introduction of smoking restrictions occasionally generates protests and predictions of widespread non-compliance, along with the rise of smokeasies, including in New York City, Germany, Illinois, the United Kingdom, Utah, and Washington, D.C. High levels of compliance with smoke-free laws have been reported in most jurisdictions including New York, Ireland, Italy and Scotland.

title: Regulation of electronic cigarettes
text: enacted laws that increased the legal age to purchase e-cigarettes to age 21. , some states in the US permit e-cigarettes to be taxed as tobacco products, and some state and regional governments in the US had extended their indoor smoking bans to include e-cigarettes. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill that would regulate the sale of e-cigarettes within the state on grounds that "if adults want to purchase and consume these products with an understanding of the associated health risks, they should be able to do so." A review of regulations in 40 U.S. states found that how a

title: History of Montana
text: registered users who had a doctor's prescription. By 2010, many businesses had sprung up, and certain physicians diagnosed, at times, hundreds of people a day. The number of registered users jumped from 2000 in 2009 to more than 30,000 by June 2011. The 2011 Montana Legislature attempted to repeal legalization, but their bill was vetoed by Gov. Brian Schweitzer. A compromise was reached; he signed a law prohibiting providers to charge patients for medical marijuana, limited each provider to three patients, and made it more difficult for patients to get a physician's approval to use medical marijuana. In addition, federal