Utah Agriculture Authorities Hold Hearings on How to Implement New Cannabis Laws

Details remain hazy on how to regulate industrial hemp cultivation.


SALT LAKE CITY — State authorities will soon be taking an uncharted path in their approaches to regulating CBD oil, growth of industrial hemp, and state-directed cultivation of full-strength marijuana, thanks to a busy legislative session addressing those issues.

But the details on how that policy makeover will be implemented are still undefined, which is why the Department of Agriculture & Food met Thursday with business owners, farmers and patient advocates to hear their input before the agency's rule-making process begins in earnest.

Department leaders met for more than four hours total to hear from those groups, hosting three different meetings with several dozen attendees each.

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