Concern and confusion are growing within Vermont's budding cannabis industry. It's all stemming from a new regulation pushed by the Vermont legislature that would limit the amount of THC products that you can buy at one time from your local cannabis retailer.
"The cards are always stacked against the cannabis business," said Cannabis Control Board chair James Pepper. "We're trying to do what the legislature asked us to do. It's contentious, it always is."
What does this mean for shoppers in line at the checkout? There has always been a cap on buying marijuana flower. It's one ounce, or the equivalent of that in cannabis products. That equivalence is a gray area, one that the legislature tasked the Cannabis Control Board to iron out. State lawmakers were worried the percentage of THC was not adding up, and that people were buying too much of it at the store, which could then be sold out of market, and out of state.
Sam Bellavance is the owner at Sunset Lake Cannabis in South Hero. He said the regulation, if implemented, would hit them hard.
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