Cannabis Advocates Gain Ground

Some who have followed the medical cannabis effort in Utah will recognize these dedicated advocates listed in a recently dropped lawsuit. As this Forbes article details, there at still ongoing concerns for the program that remain. 

"For Utahns like Christine Stenquist, Nathan Kizerian, Douglas Rice, and Andrew Talbott, M.D., unfettered access to medical cannabis is essential. Taking that away is unacceptable, they believe, which is why they banded together to fight back when Utah’s voter-approved medical cannabis initiative was hijacked."   

Pain physician Andrew Talbott, who practices in Park City, goes on to say,

“Our largest need for improvement is better patient access to medical cannabis, through knowledgeable medical providers.” To do this, we need to abolish the arbitrary patient cap and provide legal protection to those providers. What we are seeing is a large number of medical providers with little to no understanding of phytocannabinoids and their effect on the endocannabinoid system. Patients (especially those new to cannabis) are not receiving the counseling they need.”  

Learn more about the other concerns still plaguing the new program here.