While cannabis proponents have been looking to Vermont as being to the great green mountain as far as at long last getting weed legalized some place in the United States by the state lawmaking body, a late unforeseen development brought around the House of Representatives stands to attack a very publicized bill that wanted to put a stop to prohibition. Earlier in 2016, very quickly taking after Governor Peter Shumlin’s State of the State address calling for legislators to quit fooling around about marijuana reform, the state Senate pushed through a bill planned to make a regulated and taxed marijuana market.
In spite of the fact that the bill was changed into a less amazing rendition of its first structure—disposing of provisions for home development and cannabis clubs—it gave the idea that Vermont was well on its way to turning into the first state in the country to legalize recreational cannabis through the powers of the state. Tragically, the confidence encompassing this development may prove to be somewhat untimely.
It was revealed last week that the House chose that Vermont is not exactly prepared to leave on a voyage into the domain of all out legalization. A key committee of trustees under the direction of Representative Maxine Grad has torn the Senate bill to pieces and began without any preparation on another proposal that replaces the idea of full legalization with more decriminalization.
“We would like to see a regulated market, and the bill they’re talking about today doesn’t have anything about a regulated market,” New England political director for the Marijuana Policy Project, Matt Simon, said to NPR. “At the same time, we believe people should be able to grow a limited supply of their own plants, and this bill would take the state in that direction, which the Senate bill didn’t do.”
