Medical Cannabis Production and Pharmacy Licensing Board
Meeting agendas and minutes can be found on the Utah Public Notice Website.
Search categories: Government: State Entity: Department of Agriculture and Food Body: Medical Cannabis Production and Pharmacy Licensing Board.
General information
As outlined in 4-41a, the board consists of seven members: seven voting members whom the commissioner appoints and the commissioner themselves (or designee) as a non-voting member, except to cast a deciding vote in the event of a tie.
The seven voting members include:
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- one member of the public
- one member with knowledge and experience in the pharmaceutical or nutraceutical manufacturing industry
- one member representing law enforcement
- one member whom an organization representing medical cannabis patients recommends
- a chemist who has experience with cannabis and who is associated with a research university
- a pharmacist who is not associated with the medical cannabis industry
- an accountant
Board authority and duties
The board shall meet to review cannabis production establishment license applications and review each license application for compliance with:
- 4-41a
- department rules
- conduct a public hearing to consider the license application
Approve the department's license application forms and checklists
Make a determination on each license application.
The board shall hold a public hearing to review a cannabis production establishment's license if the establishment:
- changes ownership by an interest of 20% or more
- changes or adds a location
- upgrades to a different licensing tier under department rule
- changes extraction or formulation standard operating procedures
- adds an industrial hemp processing or cultivation license to the same location as the cannabis production establishment's processing facility
- as necessary, based on the recommendation of the department
The board meets annually in December to consider cannabis cultivation production establishment license renewal applications. They also meet throughout the year for cannabis processing and lab production establishment license renewal applications.
2025 meeting dates and deadlines
- April 9th
- Documentation deadline: March 12th
- Documentation deadline: March 12th
- June 11th
- Documentation deadline: May 14th
- Documentation deadline: May 14th
- August 13th
- Documentation deadline: July 17th
- Documentation deadline: July 17th
- October 9th
- Documentation deadline: September 11th
- Documentation deadline: September 11th
- December 4th
- Documentation deadline: November 6th
Current board members
- Position Vacant - Patient representative
- Andrew Gubler - Pharmaceutical or nutraceutical manufacturing industry representative
- Miles Maynes - Member of the public
- Susan Spiers - Accountant
- Edward Walker - Chemist
- Jason Williams - Law enforcement representative
- Bradley Winter - Pharmacist
Board members were appointed by Utah Department of Agriculture and Food Commissioner Craig W Buttars. All members underwent Ethics, GRAMA, and Public Meetings Act training.
To subscribe to receive notifications on meetings of the Medical Cannabis Production and Pharmacy Licensing Board:
- Click on the link above (Utah Public Notice Website)
- Click on the "Search" function
- "Entity Name"- type in Department of Agriculture and Food
- "Public Body Name"- type in Cannabis Production Establishment Licensing Board
- Select "Submit"
- There will be a list of past notices under "Notice Title", click on one of them then scroll to
- the bottom of the page.
- In the section "Subscribe by Email" fill out the information and click "subscribe", you are
- then put on the list to be notified of future alerts.
The Cannabis Department is a State Agency and can be found under the Department of Agriculture and Food.
