Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings is advising the county’s health department to not distribute medical cannabis under a state-run program crafted by the Utah Legislature.
Rawlings told FOX 13 in an interview Monday that he fears if the county does participate, the health department could lose out on federal grant money and that he couldn’t protect public employees who could be prosecuted under federal drug laws.
“The federal Controlled Substances Act is directly in conflict with what the state statute requires health departments to do,” he told FOX 13. “There is no exemption in federal law for being basically a marijuana distributor — a dealer — for a county.