Want a License to Grow Medical Cannabis in Utah? Expect to Spend Upward of $100,000

Just the hope of winning a Utah license to grow medical cannabis could cost contenders $10,000.

And that will be a fraction of the total bill for landing a license, which could carry a price tag of $100,000 a year.

Those figures, which appeared in draft rules for Utah’s new medical marijuana program, are just estimates and could change before the regulations are finalized. But they’re in the ballpark, said Melissa Ure, senior policy analyst with the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food.

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