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The Cannabis Catch-Up: Numbers Game
After months of uncertainty, the task force examining a potential taxed-and-regulated marijuana market for Vermont has released its most important number to date: 26.… -
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Vermont Panel to Propose 26 Percent Tax on Retail Weed
Gov. Phil Scott’s task force studying pot policy released draft recommendations this week for how the state should structure a taxed-and-regulated retail cannabis market.… -
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Weed for Warriors: Veterans Day Event Features Free Cannabis
In honor of Veterans Day on Sunday, Heady Vermont staffers opened their Burlington office — and a sizable stash of cannabis — to those… -
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The Cannabis Catch-Up: Weed Wins the Elections
Cannabis was on the ballot across the country Tuesday, and advocates must be happy with the results. The biggest win: Voters in Michigan legalized… -
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The Cannabis Catch-Up: Support for Pot Legalization Reaches a New High
A new Gallup poll found that two in three Americans — 66 percent — support cannabis legalization. Such strong support is no surprise here… -
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The Cannabis Catch-Up: O Canada, You Smell Like Weed
With the flick of a Bic, Canada on Wednesday became the first major world economy with legal recreational cannabis. It’s a profound moment in the… -
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Vermonters Create Blockchain-Based App for the Cannabis Industry
Vermont's first-ever blockchain-based LLC has gone to pot — literally. Joshua Decatur and Paul Lintilhac have created an app called Trace, intended to allow… -
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The Cannabis Catch-Up: Would Small Vermont Growers Get a Chance in a Regulated Market?
We’re about two months from getting the final report from the Governor’s Marijuana Advisory Commission and the panel is still hashing out an important… -
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Vermont's Lucrative Cannabis Sector Banks On a Local Credit Union
When Scott Sparks opened Vermont Hempicurean in downtown Brattleboro, he faced a challenge familiar to every entrepreneur in Vermont's budding cannabis industry: finding a… -
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The Cannabis Catch-Up: Growers Report Several Weed and Hemp Thefts
We’re headed toward harvest for Vermont's outdoor growing season, and thieves have victimized several cannabis and hemp farmers. Over the past week, the list… -
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New Haven Man Cautions Cannabis Growers After Thieves Steal His Plants
Nestled beside the vegetables and a seaberry bush, Mark Krawczyk was raising two cannabis plants in the garden on his 12-acre New Haven property.… -
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Up in Smoke: What Turner and Zuckerman's Pot Plan Says About the Lt. Gov. Candidates
Vermont House Minority Leader Don Turner (R-Milton) and Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman, a Progressive and Democrat, don't agree on much. During a recent radio… -
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The Cannabis Catch-Up: Getting Lobsters High Is a Thing Now, Apparently
Google “getting animals high” and you’ll find all sorts of stuff. Some people write about feeding animals cannabidiol-laced treats. More often than not, the results… -
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The Cannabis Catch-Up: Weeding Out the Details
The Governor’s Marijuana Advisory Commission is scheduled to publish a final report in three months, and if a meeting earlier this week is any… -
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Local Guides
The Legal Has Landed: Answers to Seven Burning Questions About Vermont's Cannabis Laws
Welcome to the land of legal weed! On July 1, Vermont became the ninth state, along with the District of Columbia, to legalize the… -
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Commission Discusses a Taxed-and-Regulated Cannabis Market for Vermont
Officials in states that have legalized recreational cannabis think Vermont misstepped by not implementing a taxed-and-regulated market, Health Commissioner Mark Levine told a panel… -
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The Cannabis Catch-Up: What the Next Week Holds
It’s been a slow week in local weed news, so we’re previewing some of the events coming down the pipe in the week ahead.… -
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The Cannabis Catch-Up: Vermont Dems Embrace the Weed
It was only a matter of time, right? For years, cannabis acceptance has been a matter of degrees. The Vermont Democratic Party has now… -
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The Cannabis Catch-Up: A New Milestone in Legitimacy
It’s August 2018. You’re growing cannabis outside your house in rural Vermont. You wake up one morning and find that someone stole your weed… -
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School Administrators Get a Crash Course in Spotting Drug Use
Detective Sgt. James Roy of the Colchester Police Department held up a black flip-flop sandal so his audience could see it. Then, like a… -
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The Cannabis Catch-Up: Will Weed Tourism Take Off in Vermont?
Take note, Vermonters: Cannabis tourism is taking off in states that have legalized the drug. Forbes this week examined some of the ways Colorado,… -
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The Cannabis Catch-Up: Weed and Taxes
Big news out of Nevada this week: The state’s tax revenue from legal cannabis sales far exceeded expectations to the tune of 25 percent.… -
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In Race for Governor, Sen. John Rodgers Stands His Ground
With less than two weeks remaining before the August 14 primary, Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Rodgers is not scrambling for votes. He's moving stones… -
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The Cannabis Catch-Up: Majority of Vermonters Want Retail Weed, Poll Shows
We’ve heard for months from Vermonters who think that the state should legalize a taxed-and-regulated market for recreational cannabis. A law in effect since… -
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Vermont AG: It's Illegal for Businesses to 'Gift' Marijuana
Selling an item or offering a service that comes with some "free" cannabis is illegal under Vermont's new recreational marijuana law, Attorney General T.J. Donovan declared in an advisory Monday.
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