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We’re having a Memorial Day Plants & Pastries pop up in Barton This Sunday from 9am-Noon~ 21+ only and free with pastries and coffee plus 🪴starts for purchase check the #linkinbio for address and/or email vermontijuana@gmail.com for pre-order info ...

The Vermont Cannabis Convention is going to be an insane weekend! 🌳💥 After the convention closes Saturday (June 25), head downtown and join @cannaplanners and a bunch of your favorite Vermont cannabis companies at @orlandosvt for a funky, dank @doctorrick__ throwdown.

Live music, dope food, and folx coming togehter to celebrate the state's largest cannabis gathering and our growing community! 👉 First crack at tickets will go to @necannacon exhibitors, limited number availlable to the public, grab em while you can! #linkinbio ...

💥NEW POST 👉The top three reasons (excuses) why licenses are delayed. From Vermontijuana.com #linkinbio 📰

🗣Editors Note/Disclosure: I’m not technically an applicant for a license but I do intend to apply, so theoretically, I would have an interest in being extra nice to the Cannabis Control Board (CCB); however, I did apply for a paid consulting job with the CCB last year and they didn’t hire me, so I’ve only got so much sympathy.

I also spent a few years in the state house lobbying for cannabis reforms and since I started, have tried as hard as I possibly could to predict and fix the hiccups and bullshit before and while the law being written – and once the CCB started – so I’m pretty zen about weed politics at this point in accepting what I can/not control…that said, this post might read like excuses for the licensing delay, and like an old coach of mine used to say, “excuses are like assholes: everyone’s got em and they all stink.” Enjoy this stinky blog…

For those applying for the first round of cannabis business licenses in Vermont, but there’s usually/always more context so for people looking for someone or something to blame, here are the TOP THREE REASONS WHY CANNABIS LICENSES ARE DELAYED.

1- The conditions around this bill not being vetoed by the Governor was that it must be cost-neutral or as close as possible…

Everyone knew the control board would need more staff, but they couldn’t start hiring additional staff until application money started coming in.

2- Dispensaries successfully made the argument their six-month head start on sales would fund the staff the board needed to review everyone else’s application faster…read the rest at vermontijuana.com ...

Hippy Speedball salutation ~Big things this month 🚜starting field work, 🌳sun-grown prep and starting 🍖 chickens! Not to mention the return of Bud + Brunch on Sunday, 5/29 ! 👀 stay tuned and make sure you’re on the email list by signing up 📝on the link in bio! ...