Legislative Update
The 2021 Vermont legislative session kicked-off earlier this month, on Wednesday, January 6, convening under the same mandate as the last session, to focus on COVID-19 priorities, and with plans to adjourn on Friday, May 28. Last session lawmakers levied the possibility of amendments, in the following session, in 2021, as a means to gain support for passing bill S.54. Now that this session has arrived, we are looking at, at least, 2 amendment bills to bring reforms to Act 164 this year.
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A Year in Review
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.
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4 States Join the Club on Election Day
Voters 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?
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Our Statement on Gov Scott’s Actions on Bill S.54
While 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.
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