Commentary

In public policy circles, you sometimes hear people throw the “conflict of laws” phrase around. When they do, they often sound very proud of themselves. It seems they can’t help…

What is the Vermont Chamber of Commerce afraid of? How about the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce? The Vermont Agency of Commerce? If you believe their anti-legalization rhetoric, you…

Vermont will not be the first state in the Northeast to roll out a well-regulated and transparent recreational cannabis market. That fact is a loss for the state and the…

Let’s say you are a first-term republican governor running for re-election in a very blue state. There’s a deeply unpopular president who isn’t on the ballot but might as well…

So here’s the question: what happens the day after Vermont legalizes cannabis? The majority of Vermonters believe this is no longer a question of if, merely a matter of when.…

This opportunity only comes around once a generation. In the 1990s it was the tobacco settlement. State Attorney Generals negotiated a 50-state settlement with Big Tobacco for using deceptive business…

As a medical marijuana dispensary hopeful, we have decided to withdraw our application from the Vermont Marijuana Registry due to the restrictive laws that would cause us to be out-of-compliance…

Howard Center Struggles Without Legal MMJ Standard This was completely predictable. It was only a matter of time before someone who uses medical cannabis as prescribed got a DWI. It…