For all the happy platitudes that accompanied the unveiling of a medical marijuana “compromise” Thursday, what got us to that point was a mutual interest in averting a brutal and embarrassing political collision.
When it comes to the medical marijuana initiative, the writing was on the wall. Both public polling and, I am told, internal polling conducted by both sides showed Utah residents wanted medical marijuana to be legal and nothing was going to stop that — not even opposition from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
But, as Connor Boyack, president of the Libertas Institute, said Thursday, passing Proposition 2 wouldn’t have been the end of it.