In November, Proposition 2, an initiative which would legalize the sale and use of marijuana, will appear on the ballot. Its proponents assert that it will make medical marijuana available to those suffering with debilitating pain and other infirmities. However, in truth it goes much further, creating a serious threat to health and public safety, especially for our youth and young adults, by making marijuana generally available with few controls.
The Church joins a coalition of medical experts, public officials, and community stakeholders in calling for a safe and compassionate approach to providing medical marijuana to those in need. The Church does not object to the medicinal use of marijuana, if doctor prescribed, in dosage form, through a licensed pharmacy.
As a member of the coalition, we urge voters of Utah to vote NO on Proposition 2, and join us in a call to state elected officials to promptly work with medical experts, patients, and community leaders to find a solution that will work for all Utahns, without the harmful effects that will come to pass if Proposition 2 becomes law.
On Tuesday voters in Utah approved a ballot measure that allows patients to use marijuana as a medicine if their doctors approve it. Proposition 2, which was favored by 54 percent of voters with two-thirds of precincts reporting, makes Utah the 33rd state to allow medical use of cannabis.
Of course, now that it's lost, the Church is seeking to negotiate a compromise. What a spoilt child the Church has become.
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
The Church formerly known as Mormon will be instructing its members in the Utah Legislature to pass legislation that will thwart the intent of this ballot initiative.
What would become of us if the church weren't there to tell us what to do? More than ever, we need someone to tell us what to call things, what we can use as medicine, and whom to hate/discriminate. So, I feel grateful for the citizens of Utah that the church will step in and correct their supposed will regarding marijuana. Who needs choice when nanny church is in town?
"Religion is about providing human community in the guise of solving problems that don’t exist or failing to solve problems that do and seeking to reconcile these contradictions and conceal the failures in bogus explanations otherwise known as theology." - Kishkumen
This is a MAJOR F U to the church and its attempt to impose itself into the political lives of Utah citizens. The citizens of Utah have raised a middle finger to the church formerly known as Mormon.
"...The official doctrine of the LDS Church is a Global Flood" - BCSpace
"...What many people call sin is not sin." - Joseph Smith
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away" - Phillip K. Dick
“The meaning of life is that it ends" - Franz Kafka
Craig Paxton wrote:This is a MAJOR F U to the church and its attempt to impose itself into the political lives of Utah citizens. The citizens of Utah have raised a middle finger to the church formerly known as Mormon.
Yes, but the empire is trying to strike back through the more "reasoned" legislative compromise. While the church can't bully the public at large, it can bully the legislators.
"Religion is about providing human community in the guise of solving problems that don’t exist or failing to solve problems that do and seeking to reconcile these contradictions and conceal the failures in bogus explanations otherwise known as theology." - Kishkumen
