Catch up on the latest with the Cannabis Control Board and 2025 legislative session. Read more →
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Urge Legislators NO Pause or Moratorium on New Retailer Licenses!
We are fielding urgent concerns from every license type about this proposed language in Bill H.321 and working to strike the section from the bill. We want to call attention to the issue and encourage you to contact legislators to let them know you support removing the moratorium on new retailer licenses. Now is the time to increase market channels or ways for products to reach the market – such as through direct sales, replacing retail opt-in with opt-out, farmers markets, etc. – not reduce them!
Share Your Support for Urgent Foundational Reforms
From industry and community reinvestment to direct sales for producers, to public consumption, to sweeping medical program reform, to complete and cost-free expungement reform, and more – these critical reforms are obtainable, and now is the time to show up together. Add your name to our a sign-on letter to demonstrate support for foundational legislative priorities! Add your name, provide a statement of support, and share with others!
Sign + Share, Let’s do this →
Industry Mixer in Brandon
We're heading to Red Clover Ale Co. for our April Industry Mixer! Join us in Brandon on Friday, April 25, from 5:30 to 8 pm to meet up and mingle with those in the industry, network sesh with licensees and prospective licensees, enjoy good food and drink, craftivism activities to help engage your local electeds, and a policy update with a question and answer. We hope to see you there!
Retailer Principles
As Jon at Spruce Mountain Cannabis and Matthew and their team at Gram Central are well aware, Vermont, despite its small size, is home to world-class cannabis producers. To ensure the success of the regulated cannabis industry, it must prioritize shared interests over division, collaboration over competition, systemic reform over individual gain, and create a just and viable marketplace similar to Vermont’s thriving beer and cheese industries. The Retailer Principles offer a set of clear and guiding values that retailers can adopt and play a crucial role in the market.
Vermont Cannabis Industry Emergency Fund
Cannabis farms and businesses are not eligible for federal emergency relief dollars, and the ongoing extreme weather events, as the result of human-caused climate change, affect licensees up and down the adult-use supply chain. The VGA Vermont Cannabis Industry Emergency Fund (VCIEF) is a collective action initiative for the industry by the industry, and grants are now open for applications.
The VCIEF is available to assist Vermont-licensed cannabis farms and businesses of every type in financial need after being adversely affected by natural and unnatural disasters.Learn more →
Industry Sign-On Letter to Remove the THC Caps from Act 164
If you're a Vermont cannabis business – cultivator, manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, testing lab, etc., take a moment to add your business name to the sign-on letter to remove the THC caps and reform the prohibitive product language in Act 164. Together, we have earned the support of the CCB to reform the THC caps and now we need your help to finish the fight in the State House.
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Consumer Petition to Remove the THC Caps from Act 164
When Vermont enacted Act 164 in October of 2020, allowing the state to tax and regulate cannabis, it became the only state to include THC caps in an adult-use cannabis marketplace, limiting solid cannabis concentrates to 60% THC and cannabis flower to 30% THC. Take a moment now to add your name to the petition to remove the THC caps and reform the prohibitive product language in Act 164. We have earned the support of the CCB to reform the THC caps and now we need your help to finish the fight in the State House. Sign the petition →
National Police Reform Now!
As a nonprofit organization, we condemn police violence and discrimination against Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Black lives matter. The United States has centuries of structural racism and classism woven its’ fabric which we must recognize and dismantle together. VGA supports the efforts of Black Lives Matter in their pursuit to achieve these goals through national police reform. Please sign the petition and take a moment to lend a hand to this courageous effort.
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