DEA: Complaint of visible pot plants spurred probe

Published September 25, 2012 11:32pm ET



HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The beginning of the end of Montana’s once-booming medical marijuana industry came with a phone call from a citizen who was upset that hundreds of pot plants were in plain sight in a greenhouse near a busy roadway outside Helena.

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