Utah’s Top Anti-Cannabis Lawmaker is Also One of the State’s Largest Opiate Sellers
A potentially explosive report detailing the distribution of pharmaceutical opiates reveals a disturbing connection between Utah’s anti-medical cannabis movement and the pharmaceutical industry. Specifically, one of the state’s leading anti-legalization policymakers is also one of the state’s biggest seller of opiates.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Utah Senate Majority Leader, Evan Vickers is one of the state’s top anti-cannabis lawmaker and also one of the biggest sellers of opiates.
- In states where cannabis is legal there’s a decline in pharmaceuticals, especially opiates.
- Vickers, who owns a chain of pharmacies in southern Utah, distributes 34 percent of all opiates in Utah’s rural Iron County.
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