06-03-2018 21:23 via deseretnews.com

Utah Senate OKs bills giving terminally ill access to medicinal cannabis

SALT LAKE CITY — The Senate gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a pair of bills intended to allow patients with less than six months to live to try medicinal cannabis products produced from marijuana grown by the state.Senate Minority Whip Karen Mayne, D-West Valley City, urged support of HB195, saying her late husband, former state Sen. Ed Mayne, was told a decade ago by his doctor that marijuana would ease his suffering from the "worst of the worst cancer."Mayne said he decided against
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