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Current Law
New Law in Utah Creates Process to Expunge Some Marijuana Charges
Bill Link: HB431
Effective Date: 5/1/2020
Overview: Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signed a bill into law that will make it easier for people with marijuana charges on their records to have them expunged.
Titled the Clean Slate Act, the legislation creates a process for automatic expungement for a number of convictions, including misdemeanor convictions for possession of a controlled substance. Individuals who have completed their sentence and incurred no subsequent convictions for a period of five years will be eligible for expungement.
Utah Bill Expands Medical Marijuana Program Despite Federal Prohibition
Bill Link: SB121
Effective Date: 2/28/2020
Overview: Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signed a bill into law expanding the state’s medical-marijuana program despite federal prohibition.
The legislation makes a number of tweaks to the states’ medical marijuana program that will help expand access for patients. Significantly, the new law doubles the caps on the number of patients to whom a doctor can recommend marijuana from 300 to 600 for doctors approved by the program. It also adjusts dosing parameters to allow for more flexibility.
The bill also includes provisions that should ensure a steady supply of medical marijuana. Under the new law, a cannabis cultivation facility can now operate using up to two locations.
SB121 also creates an expungement process for some medical marijuana patients convicted of marijuana use before the passage of Proposition 2.
The law makes a number of other minor changes to the regulation of cultivation facilities to streamline the process.
New Law in Utah Creates Process to Expunge Some Marijuana Charges
Bill Link: HB431
Effective Date: 5/1/2020
Overview: Gov. Gary Herbert signed a bill into law that will make it easier for people with marijuana charges on their records to have them expunged.
Titled the Clean Slate Act, the legislation creates a process for automatic expungement for a number of convictions, including misdemeanor convictions for possession of a controlled substance. Individuals who have completed their sentence and incurred no subsequent convictions for a period of five years will be eligible for expungement.
Utah Law Implements Medical Marijuana; Bans Resources for Some Federal Enforcement
Bill Link: HB3001
Effective Date: 12/3/2018
Overview: Gov. Gary Herbert signed a bill into law to implement a medical marijuana program in Utah, and ban the use of resources for some federal prohibition and gun control enforcement related to the plant.
Patients with qualifying conditions will now be able to access medical marijuana with the recommendation of a physician. The law also establishes a licensing and regulatory scheme for cultivation facilities, processing facilities, testing facilities and dispensaries.
Also under the new law, state officials in Utah cannot expend any state or local resources, including an officers time, making arrests or seizing marijuana “on the sole basis of activity the officer believes to constitute a violation of federal law if the officer has reason to believe that [such] the activity is in compliance with the state medical cannabis laws.”
Utah Laws Legalize Medical Marijuana for Some Terminally Ill Patients
Bill Link: HB195
Effective Date: 5/8/2018
Overview: Two laws to allow terminally ill patients to legally use medical marijuana under the state’s Right to Try law went into effect. Under the law, qualifying patients under the Utah Right to Try Act can possess or use cannabis in a medicinal dosage.
Utah passed its Right to Try Act in 2015. Under the law, terminally ill patients can try experimental treatments not yet approved by the FDA. HB195 expands Right to Try to include the option of medical marijuana for these patients. The Right to Try law already nullifies in practice some Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules that deny access to experimental treatments by terminally ill patients. Passage of HB195 and HB197 take the first step toward nullifying federal marijuana prohibition in effect.
Utah Laws Legalize Medical Marijuana for Some Terminally Ill Patients
Bill Link: HB197
Effective Date: 5/8/2018
Overview: Two laws to allow terminally ill patients to legally use medical marijuana under the state’s Right to Try law went into effect. This law authorizes the cultivation of cannabis in Utah to supply the medical marijuana program.
Utah passed its Right to Try Act in 2015. Under the law, terminally ill patients can try experimental treatments not yet approved by the FDA. HB195 expands Right to Try to include the option of medical marijuana for these patients. The Right to Try law already nullifies in practice some Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules that deny access to experimental treatments by terminally ill patients. Passage of HB195 and HB197 take the first step toward nullifying federal marijuana prohibition in effect.
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