What is also certain is that our drug problem is not, has not been and — no matter the fate of a referendum now working its way toward the state ballot — will not be marijuana.
A petition drive favoring a vote on making medical uses of cannabis legal in Utah is moving along and, if it gets on the ballot in November, polls indicate that it will pass by a Putin-like majority.
The effort has as much support as it does, clearly, as a popular response to the state’s real drug problem. Which is, as we all know, the addiction and death caused by opioids.