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Watch: Utah senator appeals to legacy of his grandpa, a Mormon prophet, in medical marijuana video

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 04/23/2015 - 09:01

The intended audience is clear from the start of a new medical marijuana promotion video by state Sen. Mark Madsen.

"My name is Mark Benson Madsen," says the Saratoga Springs Republican, grandson of Ezra Taft Benson, 13th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

"My grandfather was my hero and my friend long before I knew that he had been the secretary of agriculture or was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles," Madsen says.

Madsen's bill proposing medical cannabis failed by one vote in the Senate this year, and he knows he'll need to appeal to conservative Utah Mormon voters and his colleagues in the Legislature to support the measure next session.

The video is the latest in a series produced by the Drug Policy Project of Utah and posted on the Internet's most popular site for stories about people who have tried medical...

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