Coverage of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
The new state law outlaws gifting cannabis as a transaction, which means there is an exchange. Smaller interchanges, such as handing a joint to a random person with no expectation is still permitted.
Vermont defines “public buildings” – which must undergo fire safety approval – as all properties excluding owner-occupied single-family homes, daycares, and working farms.
The state will issue a total 12 provisional retail licenses, half of which will be reserved for social equity applicants who will have reduced application fees.
Originally both of the state’s cannabis labs used a threshold of 10,000 colony forming units per gram when testing flower for microbial. That testing standard matches Massachusetts.
The state will automatically expunge all civil and criminal cannabis convictions by July 1, 2024, as per the new law. Adult use sales can begin as early as Dec. 1 and it eliminates medical cannabis fees.
“Here we are at the end of May,” one farmer said. “I submitted my app first of May and yet I haven’t been contacted with anything I’m missing.”
The company agreed to a settlement of $33,262.17 that will be distributed among 68 employees who worked at some point between March 1, 2021 and the end of 2021.
The biggest challenge for island-based cannabis operators is that despite being legal under state law, transport over the ocean falls under federal law.
The new version of the bill will automatically expunge all civil and criminal cannabis convictions by July 1, 2024. Adult use sales can begin on Dec. 1 and it would eliminate fees for medical cannabis fees.
Once again, it appears that adult use legalization in New Hampshire is officially dead for the year. The state’s Senate resoundly rejected, 15-9, the House’s attempt to insert legalized possession and home growing into a Senate bill related to escaped prisoners on May 12.
