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It was announced Wednesday that Rudy Gobert won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award for the 2020-2021 season, making it his third time receiving the award in the past four years. Gobert had a phenomenal season by any measurement, making the All-Star team and leading the Utah Jazz to the best...

Stormy Simon, the former CEO of HighTimes Holdings and former president of Overstock.com Inc (NASDAQ: OSTK), is currenly a 2020 candidate for the District 21 seat in the Utah State House of Representatives. She's alao launching a new podcast. The series, Lunch with Stormy, debuts...

Editor's note: This story has been updated with comment from High Times CEO Stormy Simon.  Stormy Simon, the High Times CEO and former president of Overstock.com Inc (NASDAQ: OSTK), is running as a Democrat for the Utah House of Representatives District 21 seat.  Simon...

March 1, 2020, marked the launch of Utah's medical cannabis program and its marketplace. Spending in the new market could reach $84 million by 2024, according to data from BDS Analytics and Arcview Market Research.  The state health department began accepting applications March 1, and the...

Medical cannabis was legalized in Utah with the December 2018 passage of the Medical Cannabis Act, legalizing medical cannabis in the state. In January 2020, the Utah Department of Health provided 14 medical cannabis pharmacies with licenses: Beehive’s Own (two licenses) Bloom...

TerrAscend Corp. (CSE:TER)(OTC: TRSSF) announced Thursday that its subsidiary TerrAscend Utah, LLC obtained approval for a medical cannabis processor license by the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food. TerrAscend Utah's processing facility will be based in St George, Utah. "We are...

Utah’s medical marijuana program is deploying a seed-to-sale tracking platform with a unique tagging technology.  The state has selected Akerna Corp (NASDAQ: KERN), a publicly traded seed-to-sale regulatory compliance technology provider, to run its program. This will be the world...

Utah lawmakers passed a medical marijuana compromise bill weeks after the state's voters approved Proposition 2 to legalize medical marijuana. The legislation is more restrictive than the proposal that came before voters.  What Happened On Monday, Utah lawmakers voted...

Democrats took control of the House and Republicans maintained their grip on the Senate, but another winner of the 2018 U.S. midterm elections is the cannabis industry. Aside from electing political candidates, citizens in six states states had measures related to the legalization of cannabis....

President Donald Trump’s executive order to review federal control of millions of acres is, for now, the latest salvo in a land-use war almost as old as the Old West itself. Trump signed an executive order Wednesday calling on Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke for an unprecedented review of more...

The southwest is one of the most interesting regions in the U.S. regarding marijuana legalization, with Colorado providing a great example of successful policy implementation to the rest of the country. Further legalization in the southwest would provide a huge market for cannabis companies...

With the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Sylvia Burwell, refusing to guarantee that the Obamacare website would be completely working by December 15, the pressure is on. So far the Obama administration’s best response has been to announce a “tech surge” involving the “best and...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) went to the dollar store this week. however, instead of buying cheap knickknacks from Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR), Google went shopping for a municipal fiber-optic system in Provo, Utah, that cost $39 million to build. According to the Associated Press, the deal is "widely...