RELATED: Why Southern States Are Still Pushing Back On Marijuana Legalization Utah’s medical marijuana program doesn’t allow weed to be smoked, only vaporized. A handful of states across the nation still do not have any kind of marijuana program on the books. We don’t even hear much about medical marijuana at the federal level these days. Still, if medical marijuana was going to happen in Utah, the Mormons wanted it to look, uhm, medical. Although the Mormons initially rejected the concept of medical marijuana, they eventually jumped on board with a compromise, and it only passed because the church wanted it to.
Cannabis advocates believe the influence of the Mormon church in Utah has led to the creation of a recreational-proof cannabis model that conservative states might want to reference.
A handful of states across the nation still do not have any kind of marijuana program on the books. A lot of these areas of prohibition are in the conservatively driven Deep South and Great Plains, where lawmakers continue to believe the Bible is the only law of the land they really need.
For them, even therapeutic marijuana is like opening the first gate to Hell. Many are worried that cracking the door to medicinal use will lead to the eventual legalization...
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