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Senate committee forwards modest changes to Utah medical cannabis program
Summary
The Senate Health and Human Services Committee on Feb. 28 voted 5–0 to recommend House Bill 357, a package of three technical changes to Utah's Medical Cannabis Program that merges provider categories, broadens continuing medical education options and adjusts the priority of pregnancy warnings on product labels.
House Bill 357, Medical Cannabis Modifications, which Representative Ward presented to the Senate Health and Human Services Committee on Feb. 28, makes three narrow changes to Utah's Medical Cannabis Program and was favorably recommended to the full Senate by a 5–0 committee vote.
Representative Ward, the bill sponsor, told the committee the measure "has 3 small changes in it" and described them as technical adjustments rather than a broad policy shift. He said the bill consolidates two separate provider categories—"qualified medical providers and limited medical providers"—into a single category labeled "recommending providers,"…
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