Utah rolls out medical‑cannabis patient product inserts; industry asks for SKU‑level detail

Utah Department of Health and Human Services staff told a legislative working group May 20 that the agency has implemented a first phase of patient product information inserts for medical cannabis and will update the material after further stakeholder review in June. The department said pharmacies may provide patients a printed one‑page PDF or a QR code that links to a single web page of information.

The discussion matters because the 2025 Legislature directed a process for patient information inserts and pharmacies are required to share them when available; patients and industry representatives asked the committee to make the inserts readable, practical to distribute and, over time, more specific to individual product types.

Shannon Toman Black, director of the Division of Licensing and Background Checks at the Department of Health and Human Services, described the agency's outreach and timeline. “On April 3, we met with the cannabis processors and pharmacies to consult with them about the patient product information insert,” she said. “On April 30, we sent an email to all medical cannabis pharmacies informing them that SB 64 was going into effect on May 7 and that DHHS had created a web page and a QR…