Mormon church opposes medical marijuana in Utah

[left-of-center2012]

Mormon church comes out in opposition to Utah's medical marijuana ballot initiative

Utah has yet to officially add a ballot initiative allowing residents to vote for allowing medical marijuana, but one of the state's biggest institutions is coming out against it.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) issued a memorandum prepared by the church's regular legal firm, Kirton McConkie, with 31 different "legal issues" supporting its stance against allowing marijuana for medicinal use.

The required 200,000 signatures to put the ballot initiative to voters in November was submitted for review on April 16, according to The Associated Press. The church said in April, two days after the signatures pushing for the initiative to be added to the ballot were submitted, that it did not support the move.

Among the 31 issues (in opposing) the initiative: it will allow some people to grow their own marijuana, it will create significant challenges for law enforcement, dispensaries will be allowed to give free samples to card holders, people with prior convictions will be allowed to get a card, it does not require a person to get a doctor's prescription, marijuana will become more accessible to minors, and dispensaries need only to be located 600 feet from schools, churches and playgrounds.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/mormon-church-opposition-utahs-medical-marijuana-ballot-initiative/story?id=55115518

[S.E. TN Liberal]

1. Religious nuts standing in the way of progress. Nothing new here...nm

[flibbitygiblets]

2. those people need pot more than pretty much anyone.

[walkingman]

3. Weed and Magic Underwear - Party On!

[GWC58]

9. Yeah, their Endocannabinoid system is

crying, begging, for relief. Sad their systems will get none. This is of their own doing. Ya know if Oklahoma’s vote isn’t going to change many minds I suppose nothing will.

[Voltaire2]

4. It says right in the bibble "no pot for you".

Of course the text needs to be interpreted, gods don’t speak plainly. That is why we need religious institutions to tell us peasants what the bibble really says.

[Canoe52]

8. I'd be lost without a religious institution interpreting things for me.

When the fork was invented in Europe, clergy condemned this tool of the devil-

“God in his wisdom has provided man with natural forks—his fingers. Therefore it is an insult to him to substitute artificial metal forks for them when eating.”

[SCantiGOP]

5. Not a surprise

Seeing as they consider a Diet Coke to be sinful because it contains the devil’s drug - caffeine.

[FreeState]

10. They recently changed their minds on coke

They sell it at BYU now - fully caffeinated - some people see that as progress too lol!

[BigmanPigman]

6. Behind the times...as usual.

The Catholic Church should be an example for them. Their strict rules that are prehistoric has made more adults abandon the religion than any other in the past 50 years that I can think of. More people will abandon the Moron Church and turn toward the other spirituality...the "evil weed".

[Aristus]

7. Kirton McConkie, 1871 called; it wants its name back.

LDS, the 7th Century called. It's wondering when you're going to take the time machine and come home...