Vermont dispensaries are set to begin selling marijuana for recreational use, though only three will be ready to do so on opening weekend.
marijuanaFLORA Cannabis in Middlebury, Mountain Girl Cannabis in Rutland and CeresMED in Burlington will all open on Saturday. A fourth business has been licensed to sell recreational pot but isn't ready to do so yet.
Vermont will join 14 other states with legal adult-use cannabis sales, according to the Marijuana Policy Project. Four other states — Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, and Virginia — and Washington, D.C., have legalized the use of recreational marijuana, but sales haven’t started there yet.Vermont’s Cannabis Control Board prioritized review and waived licensing fees for social equity applicants.
"For us it was really important to be first in Vermont, or one of the first," said Ana MacDuff, who is Hispanic. The Cannabis Control Board was tasked with simultaneously forming regulations and reviewing applicants, and many growers anticipated that they would get licensed in May but didn’t, said Bernardo Antonio, education director for the Vermont Growers Association, a trade group.
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