Our Retailer Working Group is conducting a short (2-min) survey to raise awareness about cannabis taxes and hear directly from the community. Take survey →
We see Vermont as a premier state for locally produced, world-class quality cannabis and related products. How we get there →
$20 Million Collected ... Where Did It Go?
Many customers pay cannabis taxes without knowing where those dollars go. We want to understand how people feel about cannabis tax revenue, whether they believe there is enough transparency, and where they would like to see those funds invested in Vermont communities.
Our Retailer Working Group is conducting a short (2-minute) survey to raise awareness about cannabis taxes and hear directly from the community. Help us raise awareness and better understand this important issue before the upcoming 2027 General Assembly. We respect your privacy, and all responses are collected anonymously.
Find this survey at select retail shops across the state for fun in-store incentives, or take the survey online and share!
Retailer Principles
As Gretchen and Tony at GEEBEES and Eddie and Dillon at Winooski Organics are both well aware, to ensure a vibrant and thriving regulated cannabis marketplace for all licensees and their patrons, Vermonters must prioritize shared interests over prosperity at the expense of others and reform the market's structure to be just and viable. The Retailer Principles provide a set of clear, guiding values that retailers can adopt, enabling them to play a vital role in pursuing a just market.
Vermont’s Cannabis Market Is Unprofitable for Small Producers
We’re writing an open letter as the Cultivator Working Group of Vermont Growers Association, a committee of locally-licensed cannabis growers of different types and production sizes to advance the mission of VGA to establish a just, prosperous, and competitive market, to raise an urgent alarm that the regulated cannabis market has become an untenable business ecosystem for producers due to unfair laws, the situation is damaging the market, and that reasonable reform to address these flaws requires your support.
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 →
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.
VGA Business Members
