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Sim Gill, the Salt Lake County District Attorney, continues to back medical marijuana: ‘I’m in support of medical cannabis as an option for patients’

The top prosecutor for Utah’s most populous county says he won’t enforce the federal law that seeks to prohibit cannabis use if voters pass a medical marijuana initiative in November.

Sim Gill said he wants to see what Utahns decide for themselves, adding yet another voice to what is turning out to be a contentious campaign involving prominent players.

Gill’s entrance into the fray on Tuesday follows years of his support of a more liberal state law for marijuana that would allow patients with an approved list of conditions to obtain products from the plant if their doctors believe it will help them.