The Utah Medical Association is accusing leaders of a petition to legalize medical marijuana of misleading voters into supporting the measure and urged residents who signed on to call their county clerks and have their names removed.
The UMA statement comes as opponents to the initiative line up, and it follows years of opposition from the group that represents and advocates on behalf of Utah’s doctors.
“This initiative is not about medicine,” the group said in a statement released late Friday.
“Supporters have used images and stories of suffering patients to disguise their true aim,” they said, “opening another market for their products and paving the way for recreational use of cannabis in Utah.