A state initiative was announced Wednesday in partnership with The University of Utah Health and Utah State University. The partnership is called the Center for Medical Cannabis Research.
Its purpose will be to understand what is still a very new medical resource. The partnership will tackle questions about how medical cannabis interacts with other drugs and medical conditions. Like any other prescribed medicine, this plays a major role in learning how to use the drug safely.
A team of researchers at USU is being led by Dr. Bruce Bugbee. His team is taking on the growing aspect of the project, which they’ve been working on since 2019.
“[We’re] one of the few states getting ahead of the curve for medical cannabis research,” Bugbee said. Some states, like Utah, have taken on similar projects because federal funding won’t support it yet. Medical cannabis remains only legal under individual state laws.
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