Changes to medical marijuana bill keeps family from returning home to Utah

Salt Lake City —

(KUTV) Enedina and Michael Stanger's hopes to move back to Utah were crushed when lawmakers made big changes to SB 73 - Utah's controversial medical marijuana bill.

In October, The Stanger's left their life in Utah behind to move to Colorado where marijuana is legal. Enedina needed cannabis for relief of severe symptoms caused by EDS a genetic disease that affects the body's connective tissue.

"It's really sad to be rejected by a community and by a culture and by a state that I love so much," said Enedina of having to leave.

The changes made to the Senate Bill 73 mean access to the full marijuana plant is out -- narrowing the group of people who can be helped by the plant's medicinal properties. The bill was revised after LDS Church leaders publicly opposed the bill without explanation, only saying the law could bring "unintended...

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