December 20, 2023
On December 20, 2023, the Cannabis Control Board voted to seasonally close the license application window for new outdoor and mixed-use cultivation licenses starting from March 1, 2024. This closure will last until November 1, 2024, when the window will re-open.
State Law requires that all owners, principals, or other controllers of cannabis establishments complete an education seminar, facilitated by the Board, once every three years.
Dates for licensed cultivator education seminars have been announced, and the registration link may be found below.
The dates for those seminars are:
We are aware of an error in a communication sent to some licensees over the past few days.
CCB staff recently sent an email to licensees with incomplete product registration submissions. However, in processing the list of licensees, some licensees received incomplete notifications for product registrations that they did not submit. This was an error on our part, and we are working to remedy the issue.
A highly contagious cannabis pathogen, Hop Latent Viroid (also referred to as HLV, HpLV, HpLVd, HLVd, or “dudding” disease) has been detected at a licensed tier 1 cultivation site in Vermont.
Physical symptoms of HLVd can be hard to detect but may include stunted plant growth and under-developed trichomes. Often, the disease is not diagnosed until harvest and potency testing – HLVd-positive cannabis may contain roughly half the THC of healthy plants.
On Monday, February 27, 2023, the Cannabis Control Board voted to seasonally close the license application window for all tiers of outdoor and mixed-use cultivators.
The application window for new outdoor and mixed-use cultivators will close at the end of the business day (4:30pm ET) on Friday, April 28, 2023, and re-open at the start of business (7:45am) on Friday, December 1, 2023.
The Cannabis Control Board is issuing a consumer protection warning for all strains of flower produced by Holland Cannabis, due to pesticide contamination.
The registration form is now available for hemp processors previously registered with the Vermont Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets (VAAFM), as well as prospective registrants. More information on Vermont's Hemp Program under the CCB, including the hemp processor registration form, can be found below, or linked on the left-hand sidebar of our website:
The Cannabis Control Board voted on Wednesday, 12/21, to adopt a new meeting schedule for the first half of 2023. The Board will convene on the following dates:
The re-written CCB Rules 1, 2, and 4 have been pre-filed with the Interagency Committee on Administrative Rules (ICAR), and may be found here:
https://ccb.vermont.gov/laws-rules-and-regulations
The Board discussed these rules, and the process for amending them, in the November 30, 2022 meeting, available on YouTube here.
The Cannabis Control Board announced a partnership today with NCS analytics, a high-risk data analytics firm, to build and provide a cannabis analytics platform for inventory tracking.
The platform will allow CCB staff to identify and investigate potential issues in nearly real-time to identify suspicious transactions to improve compliance and build public confidence in Vermont's newly-created adult-use retail market.
