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In the wake of the disastrous July 2023 storms, the tragic reality of more frequent extreme weather events as the result of human-caused climate change, and the lack of Federal dollars available to state-licensed cannabis farms and businesses for disaster relief, the Vermont Growers Association (VGA) is establishing the Vermont Cannabis Industry Emergency Fund to serve as a permanent relief fund for Vermont-licensed …
Read MoreThe Vermont State House adjourned on Friday, May 12, with the legislature passing bill H.270 late in the evening with all of the amendments we managed to get included in the legislation (yay!), and the Cannabis Control Board is undergoing a rules amendment process. This year has been an extraordinarily busy legislative session for us. We spent more days in the State House, meeting with lawmakers, and in various House and Senate committees this past year than any other year and likely more than any other organization working on cannabis policy in Vermont, except for the CCB.
Read MoreThe adult-use market has been open for such a short time, so why is the CCB already closing the license application window for outdoor and mixed-use cultivators? No one is sure of what this market is or what it will become, but we do know that tier 1-3 outdoor and mixed-use licenses are the most accessible entry-level licenses in the market, and closing their application window will have dire consequences for the cannabis economy.
Read MoreIt is halfway through February of the New Year and about a month into the legislative session, so where are we at? The Cannabis Control Board is in the middle of its first rule amendment process, the State House is beginning to introduce cannabis-related bills, including a standalone THC cap reform bill, other bills continue to get drafted, and the adult-use market experienced its very first product recall the other week, highlighting some of the structural and internal processing issues with roots to the enabling statute that the industry wants to address.
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