Urgent Need for Monthly Utah DPS Report, by County, on the Number of 'Medical' Marijuana-Related and 'Non-Medical' Marijuana-Related Motor Vehicle Accidents That Occurred Here in the Beehive State

I am very glad I wrote and sent out  this letter today that urges the Utah DPS to preside over  full statistical documentation of exactly many so-called "medical"-marijuana-related motor vehicle accidents and exactly  how many other marijuana-related motor vehicle  accidents  occur each month,  by county,  here in Utah:

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Sent: Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 5:08 PM

Subject: 'Medical' Marijuana-related Vehicular Accidents in UT

March 11, 2024

Dear Utah Department of Public Safety Public Information Officer Cameron Roden,

Best Wishes to you and your other  nobly crime-prevention-minded colleagues with the DPS in Taylorsville.

I am writing you today to ask for information in regard to whether the Utah DPS currently requires that each and every  official police report and official DPS report on any motor vehicle accident that occurs in Utah:

----Must include information in a specified box or specified section of that report in regard to whether  the accident  involved only   one driver  behind the wheel who was apparently  "medical"-marijuana-impaired.

------Must include information in a specified box or specified section of that report in regard to whether the accident  involved two or more drivers behind the wheel who were each apparently  "medical-marijuana-impaired".

------Must include information about whether the accident apparently  involved at least one driver  who was apparently   marijuana-impaired, but not "medical" marijuana-impaired, and at least one driver who was apparently "medical" marijuana-impaired.

------Must include information about whether the accident involved at least two motorists who were apparently marijuana-impaired, but none of the drivers in the accident  appeared to have been "medical"-marijuana-impaired behind the wheel.

I also hope the Utah State  Legislature has provided adequate funding to your statewide law-enforcement agency toward monthly compilation by your agency of an official county-by-county  and overall  statewide report containing statistics focused on each of  the above-cited categories.

As an opponent of the legalization of so-called "medical" marijuana that has occurred here in Utah, I also hope that another State of Utah  agency will closely monitor and compile statistics about how much water is consumed and how much total outdoor  cropland acreage  is used  by the so-called "medical" marijuana-production  industry here in Utah.

As you may be aware, Sgt. Roden, the prestigious "Cleveland Clinic" in Ohio for many years has  courageously opposed legalization of so-called "medical" marijuana. 

I am very   hopeful that your DPS state agency  former employee Joe Dougherty---now a top official at the Utah Department of Health and Human Services state agency---will help publicize alternatives to "medical" marijuana for relief of pain in Utah residents who were officially  diagnosed by a doctor as "terminally ill" or as otherwise meeting currently-state-approved medical criteria for participation in the "Utah Legal Medical Cannabis Program".

I hope to hear from you soon, Sgt. Roden.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

former Texas DPS full-time staff member John Kevin McMillan, the youngest grandson of Murray (UT) butcher shop owner Parley Neal McMillan and his devoted LDS member wife, Mrs. Alice Mae Pugh (maiden surname) McMillan of Murray. 

I feel very sure that my grandparents in Murray would have both been outraged by the alarming trend toward "legalization" of psychoactive marijuana (as distinct from hemp per se, which does not contain  any psychoactive ingredient)  that has occurred here in the "Beehive State"!

My cell phone number ever since August 2019: 

(512) 993-7305.

My fully locked solo-occupancy studio rental-apartment-unit rental-home address ever since June 1, 2022:

535 South 200 East, Apt. 912, Ninth Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84111.

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