The Legislature’s decision to overwrite the medical marijuana initiative with a bill of its own making enraged some advocates and patients, but a new poll suggests voters are more inclined to sanction the substitute.
Fifty-one percent of those surveyed in the The Salt Lake Tribune-Hinckley Institute of Politics poll said they supported the changes made by lawmakers during a December special session, held just a couple days after Proposition 2 took effect. The Utah Medical Cannabis Act — which flowed from an agreement struck by state heads, advocates and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — established a more restrictive system for dispensing the plant-based substance and deleted some of the medical conditions that would qualify someone for the treatment.