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FILE - Dineh Benally poses for a photograph before a Navajo Nation presidential forum at a tribal casino outside Flagstaff, Ariz., Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Chinese workers allege they were lured to northern New Mexico under false pretenses and forced to work 14 hours a day trimming marijuana on the Navajo Nation where cultivating the plant is illegal, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, in state court. The lawsuit names as defendants Navajo businessman Benally and Taiwanese entrepreneur Irving Lin, who was arrested in 2022 following a raid in California.

Chinese immigrant workers sue over forced labor at illegal marijuana operation on Navajo land

Associated Press

The complaint filed Wednesday in state court names Navajo businessman Dineh Benally and Los Angeles-based entrepreneur Irving Lin as defendants, among others. It states the workers were lured to New Mexico under false pretenses and forced to work 14 hours a day trimming marijuana at a motel.

Shawn Blymiller, poses for a photograph in front of the Utah State Capitol on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, in Salt Lake City. Blymiller, a 39-year-old father of two from suburban Salt Lake City, said he started magic mushroom therapy for treatment-resistant depression after becoming disillusioned with traditional anti-depressants. Lawmakers throughout the United States are weighing proposals to legalize psychedelic mushrooms for people.

Health

Utah is part of a red state push to legalize magic mushrooms for therapy

Associated Press

Unlike the push to remove criminal penalties for drug use that saw success at the ballot box in Oregon and Colorado over the past few years, legalization efforts underway in red and blue states focus on allowing magic mushrooms to be consumed under supervision.

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 4, 2019 file photo, a woman using an electronic cigarette exhales in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. Oregon regulators enacted a six-month ban Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, on the sale of flavored vape products in stores and online statewide amid an outbreak of illnesses that has sickened nearly 1,300 people nationwide and killed more than two dozen people, including two in Oregon. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission, which regulates the recreational marijuana market in the state, voted unanimously to approve the temporary sales ban. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

Politics & Government

Utah is happily average when it comes to the price of medical marijuana

Saige Miller

The number one way Utahns use medicinal cannabis is through vape pens.

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Patient advocate Christine Stenquist says the state has come a long way on medical cannabis.

Health

Here’s what changed for medical cannabis in Utah in the 2022 legislative session

Ivana Martinez

A range of bipartisan medical cannabis bills got the Legislature’s approval. Some created clearer protections for patients while others expanded access to the program.

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The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food is temporarily changing tests for medical cannabis products. This story and more in the Friday morning news brief.

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Health

Utah Cannabinoid Product Board takes a stance on delta-8 THC

Ivana Martinez

After listening to patient advocates and researchers, the Utah Cannabinoid Product Board said they don’t support any therapeutic uses of analog cannabis products including delta-8.

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