16,000 Utahns Could Get Medical Marijuana Cards Next Year

By 2025, there could be as many as 70,835 Utah cannabis cardholders, according to estimates commissioned by the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food.

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July 29, 2019

More than 16,000 Utahns could get medical cannabis cards during the program’s first year, according to estimates commissioned by the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food.

By 2025, there could be as many as 70,835 Utah cannabis cardholders.

The estimates, which were created by an unidentified University of Utah biostatistician, used data from Arizona and several other neighboring states’ medical marijuana registries to determine how many Utahns might receive medical marijuana cards over the next five years.

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