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.
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Sunset resident Jeremy Hawkins knew he was legally permitted to own a gun in Utah. And as a registered medical cannabis patient, he was confident he was on the right side of the state’s drug laws.
He just wasn’t sure if and how he could do both at the same time.
That’s because even the most perfect, rule-following marijuana patient is technically still a scofflaw in the eyes of the federal government, which oversees many aspects of gun sales and possession across the nation. With that in mind, Hawkins decided to hire an attorney, reasoning that the $350 was money well spent.
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Medical marijuana legal in Utah, but not always affordable
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FILE - In this July 2, 2019, file photo, Darren Johnson, a hemp processor, holds raw hemp that will be used to make CBD oil at his processing facility, Wasatch Extraction, in Salt Lake City. A Utah group that led the push to get medical marijuana legalized in Utah launched a new project with marijuana pharmacies in the state Tuesday, April 20, 2021 to get certain people discounted rates on pot. They say they re doing it because people can t use health insurance to pay for it. (AP Photo/Morgan Smith, File)
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