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6 companies challenge Utah’s medical marijuana growing picks

July 31, 2019
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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's decision to award a smaller number of medical marijuana grower licenses than allowed by law is being challenged by six companies that say the state granted licenses to unqualified cultivators and had inappropriate interactions with…

Competition to grow medical marijuana in Utah heats up

July 15, 2019
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The wide metal barn on the Utah alfalfa farm owned by Russell and Diane Jones will host their youngest son’s wedding next month. By September, they hope the structure will be full of marijuana plants. The Joneses are fourth-generation farmers,…

Utah is allowing only 10 cannabis farms. Will that be enough to supply the state’s new medical marijuana program?

April 28, 2019
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If the cannabis industry perfectly complied with Utah’s expectations, it would grow 84,292.98 plants annually. These perfectly obedient plants would offer 10.4 million grams of THC (marijuana’s psychoactive compound), enough to supply exactly 100,000 patients with 2 grams of cannabinoids…

Medical marijuana in Utah: You can use it, but you can’t buy it

December 5, 2018
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Utah patients can use medical marijuana legally after a compromise agreement was signed into law, but they likely won’t be able to buy it legally until at least 2020, officials said Tuesday. The state will need time to first build…

Medical marijuana bill passes in Utah after compromise gains support from Mormon church

December 4, 2018
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Utah has passed sweeping changes to a new voter-approved medical-marijuana ballot measure under a planned compromise that secured support of the influential Mormon church but sparked a backlash from advocates. Supporters of the compromise cheered the vote, saying it would help suffering patients…

Marijuana Embraced in Michigan, Utah and Missouri, but Rejected in North Dakota

Marijuana initiatives appeared on ballots in four states in the midterm elections. In Michigan and North Dakota, initiatives gave voters the opportunity to legalize marijuana for recreational use. In Missouri and Utah, voters chose whether to allow people who are…

Utah Votes To Approve Medical Marijuana Measure

November 7, 2018
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Proposition 2 asked the Utah electorate to determine whether patients in the state should have legal access to medical marijuana. On Tuesday, voters answered with a yes. Unofficial election night totals put the initiative ahead, 53 percent to 47 percent,…

Where marijuana is on the ballot tomorrow — and where it’s most likely to win

It has been a big year for marijuana policy in North America. Mexico’s supreme court overturned pot prohibition last week, while Canada’s recreational marijuana market officially opened its doors in October. Stateside, recreational marijuana use became legal in Vermont on July 1, Oklahoma voters…

Sen. Jim Dabakis says at least one Utah lawmaker should try marijuana before voting on medical cannabis. So he filmed himself sampling an edible.

October 24, 2018
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State Sen. Jim Dabakis spent more than a minute wrestling with his childproof pouch of marijuana-infused gummies before it would open and release its scent — tangerine. Picking one of the gelatin blobs out of the $30 bag, he nibbled…

Marijuana and the midterms

Elections can hold significant consequences when it comes to the future of marijuana policy. In 2016 voters in California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada approved ballot initiatives legalizing adult marijuana use. While voters in Arkansas, Florida, Montana and North Dakota elected to either…

Utah’s governor to call special session on ‘compromise’ medical marijuana, despite public vote on Prop. 2

October 5, 2018
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SALT LAKE CITY -- Governor Gary Herbert announced he will call the Utah State Legislature into special session to pass a "compromise" bill on medical marijuana. Supporters and opponents of Proposition 2 stood side-by-side to endorse the bill, which will…

Utah Officials Give Green Light For Industrial Hemp Production

Utah Farmers now have the rules and regulations in place to grow industrial hemp. Lawmakers in this year’s legislative session passed two bills giving the Department of Agriculture and Food the task of organizing an industrial hemp program for local…

Salt Lake City Radio Station Pulls Anti-Marijuana Ads After Complaints

September 6, 2018
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At least one Salt Lake City-area radio station has stopped airing an advertisement opposing Utah’s Proposition 2 after complaints that the spot included false and misleading statements about medical marijuana. Kayvon Motiee, president of Broadway Media, said the ad by…

Mormon Church Opposes Utah Medical Marijuana Initiative But Open To Medical Use With Doctor Supervision

August 24, 2018
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints formally joined the opposition to Utah’s medical marijuana initiative Thursday, adding a powerful voice to a list of opponents that also included dozens of other groups and public figures. But Elder Jack N.…

New Poll Shows over 75 Percent of Utahns Support Medical Marijuana Ballot Initiative

July 31, 2017
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Amanda Ellis-Graham's multiple sclerosis was once so bad she could barely hold a pencil. She suffered from vision and hearing problems. Walking was nearly impossible because of terrible vertigo. Numbness and a sensation of pins and needles slowly spread through…