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Remember the heady days of 2018? When 53 percent of Utah voters passed Proposition 2, allowing the use of medical cannabis by qualified Utah patients? Voters even green-lit the growing of up to six plants for certain patients personal use. But voters taking such matters into their own hands woke up a sleeping bear meaning Utah s governor and Legislature then sprang into action approving their own medical cannabis bill that circumvented Prop 2. And now, after years of advocacy, grueling work to put a referendum to the voters, opposition from conservative and religious leaders, and plenty of growing pains, Utah finally has a medical cannabis program. With more than 23,000 card-holding patients who have purchased nearly $30 million in cannabis products, the program has already established itself in its first year and will only continue to grow. ....
| Updated: March 3, 2021, 5:36 p.m. As the clock ticks down the final hours of the Utah legislative session, a group of state prosecutors and public defenders came together Monday to call on lawmakers not to repeal a broadly supported bail reform package enacted last year. Proponents of the reforms which aim to keep relatively low-risk defendants from sitting behind bars for weeks or months awaiting trial because they’re poor, while rich people can simply post bail and walk free say the system now in place under HB206 is significantly better than the old one, which was based on cash bail. ....
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