The warrant, which was for Big Sky Patient Care of Bozeman, did not say why the items were to be seized. 

On Monday night, about 30 people — most of them caregivers — showed up to a meeting in downtown Billings with Steph Sherer, founder and executive director of Americans for Safe Access. 

Sherer scrapped her usual presentation and spent much of the three-hour meeting talking about the raids.  Sherer said there would be a press conference Tuesday with state legislators and dusk protests at city halls around the state on Wednesday night. 

Sherer said her staff of 14 spent the entire day responding to the raids in Montana.  She repeatedly said that the federal government had probably timed the raids to coincide with action in the state Legislature, where efforts to repeal the use of medical marijuana stalled on Monday. 

“They’ve been waiting for a politically relevant time for this,” Sherer said of the federal raids. “ I think what they did today — they’re testing the waters.  If, tomorrow, Montanans embrace their actions, there will be more of them.”