Utah’s largest health provider has given its physicians the all-clear to recommend medical marijuana to qualifying patients, potentially alleviating a bottleneck that had largely stalled the state’s new cannabis program.
On Wednesday, Intermountain Healthcare’s chief physician executive sent out a memo to its massive caregiver network, lifting a prior directive that advised physicians not to write letters recommending cannabis treatments.
"If you 1) have an established relationship with a patient who has a qualifying condition; 2) feel that they could benefit from treatment with medical cannabis; and 3) are comfortable providing a letter, you can now do so," the memo from Mark Briesacher, Intermountain's chief physician executive, stated.