The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of Montana won't be adopting the state's new medical marijuana law.

Initiative 148 allows state registered caregivers and patients to grow and possess a certain number of marijuana plants. But the tribe says its members aren't allowed grow or possess marijuana.

"The result was a consensus from the elders that marijuana has no cultural significance," spokesperson Rob McDonald told The Missoulian.

As a result, anyone who provides marijuana to a tribal member will be charged with a felony, McDonald said. The restriction also applies to members of other federally recognized tribes who live on the Flathead Reservation.

Non-Indians on the reservation will not be affected because the tribe lacks criminal jurisdiction over them.

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CSKT says medical marijuana illegal for Indians on Flathead Reservation (The Missoulian 5/13)