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You are now at the table. After a year of grassroots organizing, coalition building, and mobilizing our friends and neighbors to arrive at a just and equitable legal cannabis market in Vermont, as a new organization, we now find ourselves in a much different place than where we were just a year ago – and we are here together.
Read MoreVoters approved ballot measures in Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota on election day, Tuesday, November 3, bringing the country to 15 total states that now an adult-use cannabis law or a mandate to create one. What does each ballot measure say in the 4 states, and how many of them focus on social equity and small businesses?
Read MoreWhile disappointed in hearing that the Governor has allowed the passage of the bill to tax and regulate cannabis, S.54, without signing, our broad coalition of 6 Vermont organizations – Justice For All, Vermont Racial Justice Alliance, NOFA-VT, Rural Vermont, Trace, and Vermont Growers Association – are encouraged that he too acknowledges the inequity at the heart of the bill.
Read MoreLast week the S.54 Conference Committee appeared to abandon due process to finalize the bill in private without a final public meeting. After that dubious procedure concluded the Conference Committee, the House was quick to pass the bill onto the Senate, where they passed the bill onto the Governor. Phil Scott has 5 days to veto the bill, sign it, or allow it to pass into law without his signature.
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