Medical Marijuana will be on the ballot this November when Utah residents go to the polls to vote.
Almost 160,000 signatures were collected across the state to make it happen. The Utah Patients Coalition said to FOX 13 on Monday it has had 120,000 of those signatures verified by county clerks.
The Lt. Governor’s Office had said that it has validated 117,000 of those.
According to DJ Schanz with the Utah Patients Coalition, to qualify, medical marijuana supporters have to collect a percentage of signatures in 26 of Utah’s 29 senate districts. A few of those need some extra signatures and the deadline for that is April 16.
“This is indeed going to be on the ballot for 2018,” said Schanz.
“We’re continually encouraged by the numbers we get back. We’ve been surprised that the more conservative rural areas have actually been extremely supportive. They’ve seen the effects of the opioid epidemic more than anybody.”
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert took told Fox 13, “I do believe that people support marijuana use for medicinal purposes. I’d support it, too. I just want to have science behind it making sure we understand it does do something good. Not just an anecdotal.”
