Bill H.270 Medical Cannabis Reform Campaign
The Vermont medical cannabis market is in need of long-standing reforms, the system has largely remained untouched for nearly a decade, and patients and caregivers struggle.
However, this legislative session, bill H.270, a miscellaneous cannabis bill from the CCB, includes adult-use and medical cannabis reforms. Together we must act to pressure lawmakers to include sensible yet significant reforms to help make the medical market more fair and safe.
Bill H.270 has crossed over from the House into the Senate. Use the campaign tool on this page to contact the members of relevant committees in the Senate to urge them to help to restore the medical conditions the House removed from the original bill, as well as the following housekeeping reforms.
Restore Alzheimer’s disease; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), autism spectrum disorder as provided by the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, sickle cell disease, damage to the nervous tissue of the spinal cord with objective neurological indication of spasticity, epilepsy or uncontrolled seizure disorder, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis as qualified medical conditions.
Allow for caregivers to care for up to 3 patients, and patients to have up to 3 caregivers, and direct the CCB to create a process to allow for patients and caregivers to apply for more allowances, on a case-by-case basis.
Direct the CCB to include in its a legislative report to Senate Health and Welfare research on a price management system for the medical market, examining what other states are doing, and what price management systems in other markets may lend to this concept.
