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Committee approves substitute for HB 3 57 to ease provider rules and change product warnings
Summary
The committee approved a substitute to House Bill 3 57, which sponsors said aligns education requirements for cannabis recommenders with other controlled substances and adds pregnancy/breastfeeding language to product labels.
The committee approved a substitute to House Bill 3 57, a measure that would modify technical requirements in Utah's medical cannabis program. Representative Ward, the bill sponsor, said the bill's aim is modest: align administrative requirements for cannabis recommendations with those for other controlled substances and refine product-label language.
"The intention and our hope is that these discussions would take place in the normal medical office where a patient receives their normal medical care," Ward said, arguing that many recommendations now come from short-transaction “card mills.” To that end, the substitute would consolidate two provider categories (qualified and limited medical…
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