Personal cultivation and possession of marijuana will be legal July 1 in Vermont. Gov. Phil Scott signed H.511 into law Jan. 22, and already pro-legalization forces want to legalize industrial cultivation and commercial sale in 2019.
In this week’s Statehouse Headliners, the Trump tax cut rebate has extended to customers of Vermont Gas and VELCO, the Vermont Senate will push for commercial pot next year, and ICE detains 14 immigrants in Colchester.
In this week’s Statehouse Headliners, the Trump tax cut has led to a Green Mountain Power rebate for customers, and the $15 minimum wage is headed to committee.
In this week’s Statehouse Headliners, Gov. Scott must decide if legal pot will impede law enforcement, New England keeps lights on with oil during cold snap, and the assisted-suicide death toll in Vermont reaches 52.
The Vermont House delays its pot legalization vote to Thursday, and marijuana-related arrests of African-Americans triple in weed-legal Washington, D.C.
In this week’s Statehouse Headliners, lawmakers will consider a marijuana veto override on first day back, drug recognition evaluation is not seen as ‘silver bullet’ to stop drug-impaired driving, and new bills include antlerless deer kill and ‘protecting’ abortion from Trump court.
In this week’s Statehouse Headliners, UVM Medical Center admits performing elective abortions, a Senate bill would levy $1 per month for water quality, and doctors say pot legalization leads to opiate abuse.
In this week’s Statehouse Headliners, a carbon tax is being discussed, GMP explains its $80 million rate increase, and Planned Parenthood may get funding from a tax on erectile dysfunction products. Also, Burlington ranks among the top “post-Christian” cities.
In this week’s Statehouse Headliners, members of Congress take Alzheimer’s meds, a Pulitzer Prize winner from Middlebury says no to Big Marijuana, and school taxes and electricity costs are set to rise.
In this week’s Statehouse Headliners, legalizing pot would increase electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, the Vermont Medical Society resolution is a win for ethical opposition to assisted death, and sexual harassment troubles have appeared in the Vermont Statehouse.
In this week’s Statehouse Headliners, Vermont’s law enforcement chief sees “more fatalities on the highways” if pot is legalized, the jobless rate holds under 3 percent for the 2nd straight month, and the press corps continues to get shuffled.
In this week’s Statehouse Headliners, Gov. Jim Douglas and doctors oppose legal pot, Vermont has an estimated 1,680 full-time solar jobs, and the Vermont Medical Society refuses to call physician-assisted suicide “ethical.”