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If all goes according to plan, voters in Utah will get to decide in the election next November whether the state should launch a comprehensive medical marijuana program.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune, state officials have given the pro-marijuana group Utah Patients Coalition the green light to begin collecting the signatures necessary to earn a spot on the 2018 ballot. The group must secure 113,143 verifiable signatures before January in order to proceed to the next phase of the campaign.
“We plan to gather the first signatures by next week and be finished prior to the 2018 legislative session in January,” DJ Schanz, campaign co-director for Utah Patients Coalition, said in a statement. “Our volunteers—many of them patients or caregivers themselves—have been ready and eagerly waiting; it feels good to know we will have scheduled events in the coming weeks for those who have waited years for this.”
The initiative would allow people suffering from a variety of serious conditions to purchase cannabis products such as edibles, oils and vaping materials. Similar to states like Florida, Minnesota, and New York, the program would not allow patients to smoke…
