Despite a rocky beginning, Utah’s medical cannabis program has a lot of promise.
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Utah medical cannabis patients may soon have an easier time accessing their medication.
A new app will enable Utah’s medical cannabis patients to pay for their meds without cash.
Utah patients may now use a recommendation letter to purchase medical cannabis.
Despite some technical glitches on opening day, Utah patients can now apply for medical marijuana cards.
State lawmakers are scrambling to make sure everything goes as planned. The post Utah’s First Medical Cannabis Dispensary Expected to Open Monday appeared first on High Times.
The slow-motion rollout of Utah’s voter-approved medical marijuana program hurdles forward, with health officials forecasting a limited launch in the coming weeks. Marc Babitz, deputy director with the Utah Department of Health, told a group of state lawmakers Wednesday that only one or two dispensaries are slated to open in the first week of March, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah health officials plan to award pharmacy licenses to 10 companies to dispense medical marijuana at 14 sites across the state, a major development in the program’s approaching launch. The chosen sites announced Friday by the Department of Health are largely in metro Salt Lake City or elsewhere in northern […]
Farmers in Utah have begun growing hemp following the legalization of the crop late last year, including strains of the plant with names featuring a decidedly political twist. One varietal, Obama, is named for former President Barak Obama, who was in office when the 2014 Farm Bill that authorized hemp research pilot programs was signed […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Jeffrey Manzanares started vaping nicotine two years ago because he thought it would be a safe way to quit smoking. Instead, it almost killed him. The 33-year-old construction worker spent 17 days in a Utah hospital last month when he came down with a lung illness after vaping nicotine and […]