SB 46: Protecting Employment for Medical Cannabis Cardholders
This bill will explicitly protect employees who are medical cannabis cardholders in the same way the state protects those with a controlled substance prescription.
Utah’s medical cannabis program is a success
This op-ed was originally published in the Salt Lake Tribune. Megan Keller, a Provo mom of four, used to suffer 30 seizures every single day. Her epilepsy made it impossible to work, drive or perform regular tasks independently....
HB 302: Allowing Hemp Research
This bill sets up a pilot program whereby Utahs can grow, process, and market industrial hemp.
HB 197: State Monopoly of Marijuana Production
This bill would set up a single monopoly to grow cannabis in the state for academic or medical research. It's five years too late.
HB 195: Medical Cannabis on One’s Death Bed
This bill purports to give Utahns who face imminent death some state-grown cannabis for medical use.
Utah ‘measurable amount’ drug statute ruled unconstitutional
Earlier this month, a Utah court of appeals ruled in State v. Ainsworth that the penalties under the state’s Controlled Substance Act, which criminalize having “any measurable amount” of a controlled substance...
SB73: The Utah Medical Cannabis Act
This bill passed the Senate on a 17-12 vote but failed in a House committee on a 4-8 vote. Libertas Institute supports this bill. Senator Mark Madsen has sponsored legislation that would allow patients suffering from a few...
Fourth Poll Shows Majority Support for Medical Marijuana
A newly released Dan Jones poll shows sustained public support for legalizing medical marijuana. According to the poll, 61% of Utahns support legalization—with the strongest numbers coming in from senior citizens. These numbers...
Medical Marijuana Laws Don’t Lead to Increased Teen Use
A new study published in the Lancet medical journal—the most comprehensive study of its kind to date—looks at adolescent marijuana use in states with legalized medical marijuana from 1991 to 2014. Using annual, repeated...
A Conservative Case for Medical Cannabis
The following op-ed was published this weekend in the Salt Lake Tribune. In 1915 — 100 years ago — the Utah Legislature passed an omnibus narcotics bill that banned a lengthy list of substances including cocaine, heroin,...