Vermont's Cannabis Control Board is looking to limit the supply of cannabis in order to protect small growers.
James Pepper, chairman of the Cannabis Control Board, said the state will not issue new licenses for larger indoor and outdoor growers in the coming months.
Marijuana is still illegal federally, so licensed growers can only legally sell it within their respective state. As such, states have a unique level of control over the legal supply, and oversupply (where supply outpaces demand enough to drive wholesale prices unsustainably low) is already an issue in states like Oregon and Oklahoma.
"Whatever we do on the supply side should really be targeted at those small cultivators — the small farmers and the social equity applicants — to allow them to kind of fill whatever the remaining capacity we have," Pepper said.
The board will review the licensing landscape in the spring.
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