MISSOULA, Mont. -- A medical marijuana advocate is making a bold statement in downtown Missoula.

The Montana Caregivers Network founder is displaying a marijuana plant in his business window near the Orange Street Bridge.

Not everyone is a fan. Some think it's too abrupt, but Jason Christ wants to gain more public acceptance.

Christ openly carried the marijuana plant to Missoula from Michigan on a commercial plane.

Christ wants to gain more public acceptance.

"There's probably a little bit of shock value there. The shock value wares off. That's part of social change. So, when I smoke a bowl in public or when I have a plant I am carrying across the states in a plane, it's making the shock value ware off."

Christ also says it's important to educate medical marijuana patients about growing healthy marijuana plants.

"As a patient, as a customer, I need to know how to grow marijuana and I don't have that readily available to me in Montana. There's nowhere in Montana, there's no Oaksterdam University, there's no medical marijuana schools. You have to read books and get online on the internet, but actually having a plant in person is so much more valuable."

"People need to see what a healthy plant looks like. So that when they go to find a caregiver, someone who is supposed to provide good care to them, they know what to look for. The second thing this does is help a patient know what to look for in their own plant."

Missoula Police tell us Montana law allows a medical marijuana cardholder to possess six marijuana plants. Marijuana, however, is not allowed on the University of Montana campus.