Yakima Drug Dealers Backing Medipot Repeal

A Billings mom seeking to overturn Montana’s medical marijuana law has found an unlikely ally in her battle: a coalition of Mexican drug gangs based in Washington state.


The Billings group “Safe Community, Safe Kids,” which ran a front-page ad in Saturday’s Great Falls Tribune, is seeking repeal of the initiative that allows medical marijuana. The group was especially enraged that a medical pot business opened within a quarter-mile of a middle school, distracting some of the kids as they sought to get older residents to buy them alcohol at the Town Pump.


Faced with the legal process to get onto the ballot—a longstanding system described for this one initiative as “a state labyrinth” by the Tribune—the group has been seeking and getting support mainly from the Montana media.


But they received an unexpected boost when the Yakima-based group, “Pushers for Expensive Narcotics and Imprisoned Stoners” said they would come to Montana in a convoy of black SUVs to help gather signatures and “encourage” state officials to quickly approve the language on the ballot initiative.


“When we heard that law-abiding Montanans could obtain high-quality marijuana safely and legally, we saw we could lose a major source of revenue,” said Methamphalo Cannabo, the cartel vice chairman, in an interview by cellphone from his Escalade. “We have families to support and overlords in California and Mexico we need to continue to send money to. While we deal in plenty of methamphetamine, most of our income comes from the tons of cheap Mexican weed we truck into Montana, right under the noses of authorities, and sell at exorbitant prices to other drug dealers in Montana.”


A spokesman for “Safe Community, Safe Kids,” welcomed the help.


“The support of PENIS should the broad base of support for repeal of Montana medical marijuana,” she said. “This repeal may not eliminate all marijuana in Montana, but it will do what’s really important: Making sure only criminals, by definition, smoke the stuff.”