5/6 Act Now: Cannabis Bill, H.321, Defunds Social Equity and CCB Offers “Farmers’ Market” without Direct Sales for Producers
H.321, the miscellaneous cannabis bill, is currently in the Senate Committee on Economic Development. Rural VT and the VT Cannabis Equity Coalition, the Land Access and Opportunity Board, VT NORML, and the Lt. Governor John Rogers have all come to common ground on a list of priorities and suggested statutory language as an amendment to the bill.
Our proposals have the support of membership based organizations collectively representing thousands of VT residents, we have more direct stakeholders of every license type supporting all of our priorities and language than any other proposal, we have more organizations and businesses behind us than any other proposal (more than 70 based on the sign-on to our original proposals), and we have the CCB’s very own surveying of Tier 1 producers and its mandated reports attesting to many of the priorities we have. We understand our priorities and recommended statutory language to objectively have more support and more hands in crafting them than any other proposals that have been put forward.