Lawmakers to Meet Today to Alter Marijuana Ballot Measure

It's great living in a theocracy, ainnit, peeps?

You Vote; God Decides

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah state lawmakers will meet Monday in a special session of the Legislature to make changes to a medical marijuana law passed by voters in the midterm election.
Gov. Gary Herbert on Friday formally called the special session, which will begin at 10 a.m.
The session is part of a pre-election compromise struck by the main advocates of the ballot initiative to gain the support of the Mormon church and state lawmakers and prevent radical changes to the measure.

• Lawmakers to meet Monday to alter marijuana ballot measure

Sodden question people: Why is the Mormon Church involved in this?  Take a wild guess, peeps:

• In Utah, Separating Church From State Can Be Nearly Impossible : Religion: Mormons dominate virtually every aspect of political life here. The state has defied the church only once in the last 60 years.

Our esteemed Facebook pal  Utah Attorney Edward Flint has a few words to say about this:

The legend of the Utah Ayatollahs: The "final" third version of the replacement law was released last night, on the Friday before the Monday special session, in the middle of the Utah football game for the PAC-12 Championship. It is now over 200 pages long. After back and forth wrangling, the gods, powers that be, Connor Boyack and the rest of the secret room cabal, put nurses and PAs back in as authorized "prescribers" of medical cannabis.

Meanwhile, knee-jerks and the faithfully obedient in the Legislature are talking about taking away the affirmative defense protection for Utah patients for another two years, until Utah finally (maybe) gets around to issuing actual patient cards. And the Mormon leadership remains totally in control of most of the Legislator's thinking process and ultimate votes.

THAT is the problem. Lack of independent thinking. Disdain for sick people because that's the instruction from on high. Intentional obfuscation and willful abuse of sick people, because of the whims of a few very old, very old-fashioned, Victorian left-overs who run a church that has no problem with its members using legal medical cannabis in 32 other states, dozens of foreign nations, but not here in their dictatorship. Utah is like Iran: we have elected leaders who only have control up to the point that the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Nelson, says otherwise.

It's great living in a theocracy, ainnit, peeps?

Update 12/4/18 6:00 a.m.:

It's fait accompli, people. The Churchislature and Governer Herbert slam-dunked the replacement bill in one day flat:

• Gov. Herbert signs bill to replace medical marijuana ballot initiative