A recent poll of Utah citizens found that a slight majority of respondents — 52% — would vote for an adult-use cannabis legalization initiative, FOX 13 News reports.
Noble Predictive Insights conducted the poll earlier this month of 609 registered Utah voters with a margin of error of +/- 3.97%. The poll was commissioned by the newly formed medical cannabis advocacy group Keep Utah Medical, which advocates against legalizing adult-use cannabis in the state in order to protect patients and preserve the practices of the Utah medical cannabis program.
Keep Utah Medical member Alex Iorg, who is also a co-founder of the medical cannabis operator Wholesome Co., said in the report that “it’s important to know where we are as a state.”
“I don’t think there is that appetite quite yet. But if we don’t start looking at ways to improve our medical program, if we don’t make it easier for patients to access medical cannabis here in our state, it will happen eventually. It’s happened in every state around us that’s passed a medical program.” — Iorg, via FOX 13 News
Utah voters approved the state’s medical cannabis program in 2018 with 53% voter support, which nearly matches the support for adult-use cannabis demonstrated by this month’s poll. Meanwhile, another poll by Noble Predictive Insights conducted last October found just 50% voter support for legalizing adult-use cannabis in Utah.
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