If voters pass the medical marijuana initiative in November, it would require that licensed dispensaries open by Jan. 1, 2021 — or eligible Utah residents could legally grow up to six plants of their own for personal use.
State officials warned Monday that they might not be able to legally write, receive public comment and implement needed rules quickly enough to meet that deadline — triggering the possibility of patients growing their own marijuana.
“We will move as quickly as we can. The challenge is, I don’t know if it is achievable based on timelines in the initiative,” Scott Erickson, deputy state agriculture commissioner told the Legislature’s Administrative Rules Review Committee.