In a nondescript building in South Salt Lake, there s a big bag of weed labeled Blue Dream stored in a large Igloo cooler, in a chilly room called the vault.
Remember the heady days of 2018? When 53 percent of Utah voters passed Proposition 2, allowing the use of medical cannabis by qualified Utah patients? Voters even green-lit the growing of up to six plants for certain patients personal use.
But voters taking such matters into their own hands woke up a sleeping bear meaning Utah s governor and Legislature then sprang into action approving their own medical cannabis bill that circumvented Prop 2.
And now, after years of advocacy, grueling work to put a referendum to the voters, opposition from conservative and religious leaders, and plenty of growing pains, Utah finally has a medical cannabis program. With more than 23,000 card-holding patients who have purchased nearly $30 million in cannabis products, the program has already established itself in its first year and will only continue to grow.