Controversy has erupted in Utah over an anti-cannabis group’s efforts to remove signatures from a petition supporting medical marijuana. The Utah Medical Association has been hiring canvassers to knock on the doors of people who signed a petition in favor of legalizing medical marijuana. But the canvassers have been misleading the petition’s signers in an effort to get them to remove their names. Now, a supporter of legal medical marijuana has caught them in the act.
Group Misleads People To Remove Signatures From Petition
A woman claiming to be with the Utah Medical Association (UMA) and the County Clerk’s office was caught on video lying about a ballot initiative aiming to legalize medical marijuana in Utah.
The video shows an unidentified woman posing as a door-to-door canvasser for UMA. She attempts to convince a woman who covertly filmed their interaction to drop her support for the ballot initiative.
The woman who signed the petition pushes back, pointing out the contradictory, seemingly fabricated information the canvasser presents.
First, the canvasser attempts to explain that legalizing medical marijuana would make smoking cannabis a felony. Next, she claims the ballot initiative would mean patients would require a recommendation from the Utah State Health Department, not their personal physician. Then, the canvasser offers unintelligible claims about the illegality of CBD oil in Utah (it’s legal, by the way). The canvasser even tries to convince the woman that the petition itself was illegal.
The woman recording the video, however, isn’t having any of it. Ultimately, the canvasser retreats after trying to explain that “there’s a big difference between marijuana and cannabis.”
The lies and incoherent statements were apparently crafted to make supporters of the ballot initiative doubt whether