The Weber County sheriff, a strident opponent of attempts to relax cannabis laws, is taking issue with the lack of a law-enforcement presence in negotiations over the medical marijuana bill passed by the Legislature earlier this month.
The talks had been going on behind the scenes for weeks before public-safety officials were looped in, and even afterward, they were never part of the core group. Sheriff Terry Thompson has a problem with that.
“We weren’t invited to the table. We knew nothing about it until weeks after the talks had been going on,” he said Tuesday in an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune.