4/7 ACTION ALERT! Support the Vermont Cannabis Equity Coalition's 2025 Legislative Priorities
The Vermont Cannabis Equity Coalition (VCEC) is a coalition of Vermont not-for-profit, member based organizations representing thousands of Vermonters: the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance, Rural Vermont, Vermont Growers Association, Green Mountain Patients’ Alliance, and the Northeast Organic Farmers Association of Vermont. We share a vision for a cannabis economy in Vermont which is racially just, economically equitable, agriculturally accessible, and environmentally sound.
This is an opportunity for you to indicate your support for the recommendations of the VT Cannabis Equity Coalition - all of which have been deeply informed by our work with a variety of affected constituencies over time. Please read our recommendations in more detail here. More broadly, these recommendations include: 1) industry and community reinvestment, 2) direct sales for small producers, 3) treating cannabis like farming, 4) complete and cost-free cannabis expungement, 5) public consumption wherever lit tobacco is allowed, 6) increasing home-grow allowances, 7) positioning the administration of eligible conditions and oversight of the medical cannabis program under the Cannabis Control Board by re-establishing the Symptom Relief Oversight Committee.
If you are in support, please take the opportunity to sign the letter to Vermont State Senators and Representatives.