An expansion to Utah s medical cannabis program has officially launched, allowing more health care workers to recommend marijuana to qualifying patients.The pro
An expansion to Utah's medical cannabis program has officially launched, allowing more health care workers to recommend marijuana to qualifying patients.
A program launched Wednesday now allows over 21,000 medical providers to recommend medical cannabis in Utah. Previously, only 800 providers were registered to prescribe it.
A program launched Wednesday now allows over 21,000 medical providers to recommend medical cannabis in Utah. Previously, only 800 providers were registered to prescribe it.
Now that Utah has a medical cannabis program (for its rollicking timeline, see
City Weekly s Get on the Canna-bus, published April 22), it should be easy for anyone to sign up and start smoking, right? Wrong. There are plenty more steps and hoops to jump through before you re able to even visit a pharmacy.
As many
City Weekly readers likely know, two of our neighboring states Colorado and Nevada have had recreational cannabis programs running for years (on top of their decades-old medical cannabis systems), almost certainly capturing millions of tax dollars from Utahns and residents of other restrictive nearby states.