Trends & Articles More Students in Utah Are Smoking Marijuana by Sophia Vida January 28, 2020 According to health department surveys in the state of Utah, more students in the state are reporting that they smoke weed. Even though Utah has some of the lowest rates of teen marijuana use in the country, health experts sa...
Trends & Articles Utah Will Start Testing Medical Marijuana by Sophia Vida January 15, 2020 Utah's Department of Agriculture will begin to start testing its medical marijuana crops soon. The department will be looking out for salmonella, E. coli, arsenic, mercury, and a host of other things. State law calls for priv...
Legal Related Utah is Abandoning State-run Medical Marijuana Dispensaries by Sophia Vida August 23, 2019 Utah's lawmakers are abandoning plans for a state-run medical cannabis dispensary network according to Fox 13. A bill is set to be introduced for a special session in the state's Legislature that says the state will no longer c...
Legal Related Utah Changed its Proposed Medical Marijuana Rules to Allow This to Happen by Sophia Vida July 17, 2019 The state of Utah has eliminated a proposed residency requirement for Utah cannabis cultivation. The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, which is responsible for establishing rules for the state’s emerging medical mariju...
Legal Related Utah Has Just Announced Members for its Medical Marijuana Board by Sophia Vida June 26, 2019 The Utah Senate has confirmed this week that seven physicians have been added for its medical marijuana Compassionate Use Board. Tom Hudachko with the Utah Department of Health announced the news on Tuesday. Hudachko said the b...
Legal Related Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Step Away From Legislation Fights Over Medical Marijuana by Sophia Vida January 25, 2019 Marty Stephens, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' government and community relations director, indicated in an interview with Fox 13, that the church would not be weighing in on every cannabis bill that came through...
Legal Related Utah’s Democratic State Senator Posts Video of Him Trying Edible Marijuana by Sophia Vida October 24, 2018 Jim Dabkis, a Democratic state senator from Utah, has tried marijuana for the very first time and he did it on camera. The senator tried a weed gummy in a parking lot of a Las Vegas dispensary called NuLeaf in just jeans and a ...
Legal Related Utah’s Future Senate Winner Will Have a Marijuana Advocate by Sophia Vida September 25, 2018 Republican Mitt Romney and Democrat Jenny Wilson are up against one another in Utah's U.S. Senate race this November and it looks like the candidates have something in common. Regardless of whether Romney or Wilson win, there w...
Legal Related The LDS Church is At it Again to Combat Marijuana by Sophia Vida September 17, 2018 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has made it very vocal that they are against Utah allowing medicinal marijuana to be legal. The church has released an analysis on the risks and ramification of Utah’s Propositi...
Legal Related Religious Group in Utah Says Marijuana Violates Their Religious Freedom by Sophia Vida August 17, 2018 Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have alleged that Utah's ballot measure to legalize medicinal marijuana, violates their religious freedom and freedom of speech. The ballot measure is to legalize medic...