420 with CNW – Will Utah’s Compromise Deal on Cannabis Work?
Patients, religious leaders, politicians and representatives from some medical cannabis advocacy groups in Utah recently came together to announce that a compromise had been reached to draft a law which would legalize medical cannabis whether the ballot measure (Proposition 2) succeeded during the midterm elections or not. This compromise deal seems to have been arrived at after Prop 2 polarized the conservative community and threatened to alienate major sections of the community, such as the Mormon Church. The compromise deal seeks to allow only six “medical cannabis pharmacies” to operate out of which one would be run by the state…