Utah Voters Approved Medical Marijuana, Now State Lawmakers Want A Rewrite

Utah lawmakers are getting ready to meet in a special lame-duck session on Monday to rewrite a medical marijuana law that voters passed this November. Patient advocates are saying the move is an end run around voters.

For the past year, Julie King, the mother of four from Saratoga Springs, Utah, has been a vocal proponent of medical marijuana after she discovered she has an adverse reaction to opioids.

Over the summer, King was diagnosed with a subset of sarcoma, a rare form of cancer. "Cannabis is an option for me for this very rare, very highly recurrent cancer, and I want it as an option," she says.

She, like thousands of Utahans, signed onto a citizen-led petition to put medical cannabis onto the ballot this November. The initiative, called Proposition 2, passed with nearly 53 percent support, but not without controversy.