A recent survey showed nearly 60% of patients still consider buying cannabis from black market and out-of-state sources.
(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) Tryke celebrates the grand opening of its cannabis farm in Tooele, Jan. 30, 2020, as the company, one of eight cultivators approved by the state, gives tours of their growing rooms.
Last year, Chelsie Warren quit her job as a bus driver so she’d be free to sign up as one of Utah’s first cannabis patient cardholders and qualify for the plant-based treatment that soothes her chronic back pain.
She’s found a new job since then and doesn’t regret the trade-off.
But the Garland resident is disappointed she has to drive 40 minutes to the nearest cannabis pharmacy — which is often sold out of the gummies that provide her relief and sometimes also out of the raw flower she uses as a backup. She’s traveled outside Utah, where she says dispensaries are better-stocked and prices are lower, several times.
“It’s just been so much easier for me to go out of state,” she said, “and purchase so much more for cheaper.”
With the advent of 2021, though, she and other Utah cannabis patients lost the legal ability to cross state lines and buy their medicine in Colorado or Nevada, as many of them have been doing for months. State lawmakers put this sunset date on…
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A recent survey showed nearly 60% of patients still consider buying cannabis from black market and out-of-state sources.
(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) Tryke celebrates the grand opening of its cannabis farm in Tooele, Jan. 30, 2020, as the company, one of eight cultivators approved by the state, gives tours of their growing rooms.
Last year, Chelsie Warren quit her job as a bus driver so she’d be free to sign up as one of Utah’s first cannabis patient cardholders and qualify for the plant-based treatment that soothes her chronic back pain.
She’s found a new job since then and doesn’t regret the trade-off.
But the Garland resident is disappointed she has to drive 40 minutes to the nearest cannabis pharmacy — which is often sold out of the gummies that provide her relief and sometimes also out of the raw flower she uses as a backup. She’s traveled outside Utah, where she says dispensaries are better-stocked and prices are lower, several times.
“It’s just been so much easier for me to go out of state,” she said, “and purchase so much more for cheaper.”
With the advent of 2021, though, she and other Utah cannabis patients lost the legal ability to cross state lines and buy their medicine in Colorado or Nevada, as many of them have been doing for months. State lawmakers put this sunset date on…
