Vermont patients who consume medical cannabis can now grow 12 plants, including 6 growing ones, and medical cannabis products can now contain up to 100 milligrams of THC per serving compared to 50 milligrams before, under a bill that Republican Gov. Phil Scott let go into effect without his signature
The law also expands access to medical cannabis for patients with post-traumatic stress and increases the total number of patients a caregiver can serve at any one time.
Other provisions of the law create a new category of licensed growers, known as propagation growers, who will be allowed to grow and sell immature plants and clones. Another section of the law creates an advisory group to make recommendations to direct funding to communities that have been disproportionately impacted by cannabis prohibition.
A cannabis analysis laboratory will also be created at the state level. It will allow the Vermont Cannabis Control Office to randomly test products to ensure that the tests performed by one of the independent labs are accurate in terms of potency and other key ingredients like terpenes.
Vermont lawmakers initially legalized medical cannabis in 2004. Lawmakers decriminalized possession of cannabis for adult use in 2018. Two years later, they passed a separate law legalizing the production and retail sale of cannabis-based products. of cannabis.
Governor Scott also allowed this measure to become law without his signature.
