Utah Highway Patrol troopers are aware the dispensary opened but the agency hasn’t arranged any extra patrols or checkpoints and doesn’t plan to arrest people who have a doctor’s note and marijuana oils, tablets or other forms of the drug legal under state law, said Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. “We’re in a quasi-legal state right now,” Stenquist said. That’s scheduled to happen in the spring of 2020. Utah’s law allows using medical marijuana in certain forms with a doctor’s note of permission, but there’s murkiness until the state issues patient cards and opens dispensaries. She is cautioning people to be careful and not to answer any questions until they have a lawyer if they are stopped on the highways. Previously, people traveled nearly twice as far to cities in Colorado or southern Nevada, she said. She said she’s already getting requests for carpools to West Wendover, which is about 125 miles (201 kilometers) west of Salt Lake City, making it the closest marijuana dispensary for people who live in northern Utah. The new dispensary in West Wendover, called Deep Roots Harvest, figures to get plenty of business from Utah residents waiting for Utah’s new medical marijuana program to roll out next year, said Christine Stenquist, the director and founder of advocacy group Together for Responsible Use and Cannabis Education, or TRUCE. laws prohibit people from taking it across state lines to Utah, where only medical marijuana is legal. Nevada laws prohibit using marijuana in public or hotel rooms, and U.S. SALT LAKE CITY - The first recreational marijuana dispensary opened Monday in a northeastern Nevada border city known for its casinos, but Utah residents considering making the drive to West Wendover will have to be careful about where they use the pot if they go. Wendover has opened its first recreational marijuana dispensary.
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