Significant changes to the Vermont Medical Cannabis Program are at the center of Bill H.612, the leading cannabis-related bill this legislative session in the State House. With crossover behind us, a procedural deadline for bills to move from one legislative chamber to the other to be passed into law, Bill H.612 has emerged as the leading cannabis-related legislation and most likely to reach the Governor's desk this year …

Since 2015, the Vermont medical cannabis market has had an oversight body, known as the Cannabis for Symptom Relief Oversight Committee (CSROC), to advise and assist policymakers by focusing on patient and caregiver interests, but it was dissolved by lawmakers in 2021!

The State House adjourned on Friday, May 12, 2023, and with it came the passage of Bill H.270, now Act 65 (2023), a miscellaneous cannabis bill that Green Mountain Patients Alliance worked on throughout the session, alongside the Vermont Cannabis Equity Coalition, including some longheld policy changes to the Vermont medical cannabis program …