Rocky's Commitment to Health Care

HEALTH CARE & equal access advocacy

ROCKY ANDERSON ON HEALTH CARE

"A large part of that is because we're relying upon the for-profit insurance industry to provide health care for most people. We need to get rid of that. We can control costs. We can make it affordable, provide better services, and we can do it for all."

THE JUSTICE PARTY'S CALL FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE

Watch the call for Universal Health Care in this informative video produced by the Justice Party (nka Justice Movement) co-founded by Rocky Anderson when he ran for US President in 2012.

MOTHERS POST MESSAGE ABOUT FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME AT CLUBS

​"Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson named September 9 Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Day."

ROCKY WANTS SMOKING BAN AT SALT LAKE AIRPORT

"...Anderson thinks the time has come to end it. As part of his aggressive anti-smoking agenda, Anderson says he's ready to dump the smoking pens and, in doing so, completely ban all indoor smoking at Salt Lake's airport."

ROCKY TARGETS PUBLIC SMOKING

"Anderson's fight is personal. It's hard for him to remember how long he was a smoker. Was it 15 or 20 years? Now a self-described 'reformed ex-smoker,' Anderson hates tobacco. The mayor kicked the habit shortly after watching both his parents die of smoking-related emphysema. He also had a close friend die of the same disease. 'Anybody is crazy to breathe these lethal poisons into their lungs,' he said."

ROCKY, GOP PALS PUSH SMOKE-FREE BARS

"The promotion was sponsored by the Utah Department of Health and included unlikely political allies like Ray, R-Clinton; Sen. Michael Waddoups, R-Taylorsville, and Democratic Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson. All three politicians maintain smoking indoors has adverse health impacts on workers who spend eight- and 10-hour shifts navigating through secondhand smoke. Currently Utah law allows smoking in private clubs — Utah's version of liquor-serving bars — but not in restaurants or other public places."

MEDICAL CANNABIS legalization

UTAH STORIES: ROCKY ANDERSON TALKS ABOUT MEDICAL CANNABIS AND THE FUTURE OF SALT LAKE CITY 

"We talked openly about Salt Lake City local businesses, economic development, the Inland Port, how the state’s medical cannabis compromise bill (3001) puts federal dollars in jeopardy, and the future of Salt Lake City. This is a must watch podcast, because what you think you know about these topics, you might not."

UTAH: A VOID IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WEST'S MEDICAL MARIJUANA REVOLUTION 

"Former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, once said, 'To put people behind bars for possessing or smoking pot is absolutely absurd...Yes, I think marijuana should be legalized.' "

LEGALIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL HEMP 

"It is time to allow farmers to grow industrial hemp in the United States. There is a huge market for textiles, paper, high protein food, clean burning diesel fuel and biodegradable plastics that industrial hemp farmers could produce using less water than cotton, needing no pesticides or herbicides for growing this ‘green’ alternative product."

UTAH SENATE PRESIDENT WARNS LAWMAKERS HE'D BE WILLING TO USE HIS POWER TO COMPEL THEM TO VOTE ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA

" 'The threat to arrest and force state senators to attend a special session of the Legislature to undermine the popular passage of Proposition 2 will be viewed throughout future history as a blatant power-grab...' Anderson wrote."

LEGALIZE MARIJUANA IN AMERICA: THREE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ARE IN SUPPORT OF LEGALIZING

"Rocky Anderson is all for legalizing medicinal marijuana and even marijuana in general."

‘ROCKY' ANDERSON, PROP 2 GROUPS FIRE WARNING SHOT AGAINST WARNING SHOT AGAINST LDS CHURCH, DEMAND RECORDS OF 'DOMINCATION AND INTERFERENCE'

​"Attorney Ross 'Rocky' Anderson says he has put the LDS Church on notice that it should not destroy records documenting its potential interference with the Proposition 2 initiative approved by voters and set to be the subject of a special session prior to the legislature."

ADVOCATES ACCUSE STATE OF UTAH, LDS CHURCH OF UNDERMINDING PROP 2 WITH SPECIAL SESSION

​"Medical marijuana advocates are threatening to sue the state of Utah, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for its involvement with Proposition 2...Anderson wrote a letter, on behalf of the plaintiffs, calling for a separation of church and state."

MEDICAL MARIJUANA BACKERS THREATEN TO SUE LDS CHURCH INVOLVEMENT IN COMPROMISE BILL TO REPLACE PROP 2

" 'Although initiative statutes may be amended or repealed by the Legislature, the almost immediate extreme undermining of numerous provisions of Proposition 2 at the behest of The Church of Jesus Christ is anti-democratic and contemptuous,' attorney Rocky Anderson, former Salt Lake City mayor, wrote."

DURING 5-HOUR MEETING, SPEAKERS PUSH TO KEEP PROP 2, WHILE HUGHES ARGUES CANNABIS BILL WON'T NULLIFY INITIATIVE VOTE

"Rocky Anderson, an attorney who’s representing the patient advocacy group TRUCE, said the proposed cannabis act is fatally flawed."

GEORGE PYLE: UTAH HAS ITS OWN BRAND OF ORWELLIAN DOUBLETHINK

​"Former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson is laying the groundwork for a lawsuit..."

UTAH LEGISLATURE TO VOTE ON MEDICAL-MARIJUANA COMPROMISE 

​" 'The plan creates "massive obstacles" by cutting the number of medical professionals who can approve use of the drug, the kinds of conditions that can be treated with it and the number of places people can get it,' said Rocky Anderson."

UTAH MEDICAL CANNABIS ACT SIGNED INTO LAW BY GOV. GARY HERBERT

"​Former Salt Lake City mayor and attorney Ross “Rocky” Anderson said the new version of the law subverts the will of Utah voters while catering to special interest groups..."

‘ROCKY' ANDERSON BLASTS UTAH'S CANNABIS COMPROMISE AS 'CRUEL, CONTEMPTUOUS,' PLANS IMMEDIATE LEGAL ACTION 

" '...the Legislature not only did tremendous damage for tens of thousands of people whose suffering can be relieved by medical cannabis, but it also demonstrated tremendous contempt for the democratic process provided by the Utah Constitution,' Anderson told Gephardt Daily."

​‘ROCKY' ANDERSON FILES LAWSUIT TO RESTORE PROPOSITION 2, SLAMS GOVER. GARY HERBERT, LDS CHURCH FOR CONTRAVENING 'WILL OF THE PEOPLE'

​"Anderson called Herbert’s action an 'unconstitutional violation by the Utah Legislature of the constitutional right of the People to directly pass legislation through the initiative process.' "

​UTAH GOP GUTS VOTER-APPROVED MEDICAL MARIJUANA INITIATIVE AFTER LOBBYING FROM MORMON CHURCH

​​" 'Anything that defeats the right of the people to pass their own legislation under our constitution should be declared unconstitutional. Otherwise it’s totally illusory,' Rocky Anderson, an attorney for the group TRUCE, told KSTU."

COMMENTARY: UTAH LEGISLATURE'S DISREGARD FOR THE PEOPLE'S INITIATIVE LEADS TO LEGALLY INVALID POT PLAN

​" 'All political power is inherent in the people.' That’s a 'fundamental principle' the Utah Constitution recognizes as being 'essential to the security of individual rights and the perpetuity of free government.' "

LAWYER SAYS UTAH'S NEW MEDICAL CANNABIS LAW IS A 'FULL SERVICE DRUG CARTEL'

​​" 'The Utah Legislature...has required the Utah Health Department and local health departments, to participate in what, under current federal law, constitutes a felonious, full service drug cartel,' wrote Rocky Anderson..."

MEDICAL CANNABIS ADVOCATES DROP CLAIMS OF LDS CHURCH INVOLVEMENT IN PROP 2 LAWSUIT 

​" 'There is a tension here between First Amendment rights and the state constitutional provision prohibiting domination and interference between a religious organization and the state,' said Rocky Anderson, the attorney for [Plaintiffs] TRUCE and EAU."

STATE ARGUES PROP 2 REPLACEMENT NOT UNCONSTITUTIONAL, LDS CHURCH INFLUENCE NOT PROVE-ABLE

"​Lawyers from the state Attorney General's office argued a lawsuit filed by medical cannabis advocates should be dismissed...the state argues replacing Proposition 2 with House Bill 3001 was not unconstitutional."

LAWSUIT DROPS CLAIM MORMON CHURCH SWAYED MEDICAL POT CHANGES

"...lawsuit will instead focus on an allegation that it was unconstitutional to replace a law passed by voters and raise questions about whether the changes are at odds with federal laws that still say marijuana is illegal..."

UTAH STATE-CONTROLLED MEDICAL CANNABIS IS UP IN SMOKE

​" 'It took patients and their advocates...and their lawyers, to do what...the Legislature should have done, but failed to do, before they recklessly passed H.B. 3001.' " -Rocky Anderson

UTAH MEDICAL CANNABIS ADVOCATES GAIN GROUND AFTER LAWSUIT

" 'The biggest thing the lawsuit did—besides getting rid of the central fill—was that it actually shows to the legislators that the people are united. The central fill concept was the biggest poison pill,' Stenquist explains."

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ORGAN DONORS LAUDED AT MONUMENT

" 'We're the first city to have such a monument,' Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson said at the second annual organ donor commemoration event at the Salt Lake City and County Building Friday night. He also said Utah has more potential donors per capita registered on an online organ donor registry than any other state in the nation."

DONOR REGISTRY HONORS FOUR UTAH BUSINESSES

"Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson joined the Quest for the Gift of Life Foundation to honor four Utah businesses for their outstanding efforts to increase organ donor awareness. The Utah Donor Registry Coalition says the workplace is a great place to educate people about organ donation so that in a time of loss they are prepared to make a decision that could save lives."

MONUMENT HONORING UTAH ORGAN DONOR GETTING MAKEOVER

​"The $225,000 remodel is being paid for by donations from foundations and individuals, she said. Plans were to be unveiled Tuesday at a groundbreaking ceremony attended by donor families and former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson. About 500 new names are added to the monument each year. And while that poses a display problem, it doesn't alleviate demand."

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