The Utah Legislature should have respected the will of the electorate and left Proposition 2 alone. Or perhaps just passed the bill proffered by Democrats, the one that would have made just a few technical tweaks in the voter-approved measure that legalized certain forms of medical cannabis for specific maladies.
But, jealous of sharing their legislative authority with the people (even though the Utah Constitution says they must), both houses of the Legislature rapidly passed, and Gov. Gary Herbert quickly signed, The Medical Cannabis Act. That is the bill that was described as a compromise between what the people of Utah said they wanted, by passing Prop 2, and what a mighty array of the powers that be would have preferred, which was nothing.