Author: Mariah Wheeler

UTAH – Last year, Chelsie Warren quit her job as a bus driver so she’d be free to sign up as one of Utah’s first cannabis patient cardholders and qualify for the plant-based treatment that soothes her chronic back pain. She’s found a new job since then and doesn’t regret the trade-off. But the Garland resident is disappointed she has to drive 40 minutes to the nearest cannabis pharmacy — which is often sold out of the gummies that provide her relief and sometimes also out of the raw flower she uses as a backup. She’s traveled outside Utah, where…

OGDEN, Utah – What a year it’s been. Now that 2020 has drawn to a close, the prevailing opinion is that this day couldn’t have come soon enough. Twelve months of fear as an at first mysterious but now all too familiar virus spread across the globe. Twelve months of worry and resentment as that virus crept into every facet of our lives, upending plans, decimating businesses’ bottom lines and forcing people apart from their friends and loved ones.