By Bethany Rodgers
If the cannabis industry perfectly complied with Utah’s expectations, it would grow 84,292.98 plants annually.
These perfectly obedient plants would offer 10.4 million grams of THC (marijuana’s psychoactive compound), enough to supply exactly 100,000 patients with 2 grams of cannabinoids per week for the entire year.
Illustration by Christopher Cherrington / The Salt Lake Tribune
The supply would meet the demand, and no cannabis buds would be left over to sit in storehouses, at risk of falling into the black market’s clutches.
That, at least, is how it is supposed to work on paper. The state has calculated size limits for the cannabis-growing operations that will undergird Utah’s new medical marijuana program.
