'Follow the money:' Cache legislators discuss funding, budgets, medical marijuana

With the Utah State Legislature past the halfway mark of its session, Cache County’s legislators held to a common theme in their reports at the weekly constituent meeting Saturday morning: money.

“One thing I’ve always said when you’re looking at who’s supporting what issue is to follow the money,” Sen. Lyle Hillyard, R-Logan, said when discussing medical marijuana legislation in the Senate. “If an initiative comes along to put marijuana legalization on the ballot, ask yourself where all the money is coming to pay for it, because I guarantee it will be lambasted with money. It’s not going to be these poor sick people, but the people who see money in selling the drug.”

Hillyard sat alongside Rep. Ed Redd, R-Logan, Rep. Curt Webb, R-Providence, and Rep. Jack Draxler, R-North Logan, in discussing a number of topics, including the state budget, medical marijuana, transportation funding and education, all of which...

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