Please call or email Vermont House representatives to vote “No” on H.612, the cannabis bill that would expand access to high THC marijuana concentrates.
H612 is scheduled for a floor vote TOMORROW Wednesday, March 13.
URGENT!
Email or leave a message for your House Representative to vote no on H.612 by calling the Vermont Sergeant at Arms at 802-828-2228. Leave the same message for Speaker of the House, Jill Krowinski by calling 802-828-2228.
Consider these facts prepared by Physicians for Healthy Communities:
18-year old Vermonters can get a medical marijuana card without their parents’ knowledge and can then legally purchase dangerous high-THC concentrates under current law. 7 Vermont Statutes Annotated § 953(b) (“An application by a person under 18 years of age shall be signed by both the applicant and the applicant’s parent or guardian”). The Chair of the Vermont Cannabis Control Board, consistent with the peer-reviewed medical literature, has testified that high potency cannabis products are dangerous.
The only “medical” evaluation they must obtain can be over the internet from a doctor in another state who gets paid for each approval. Under Cannabis Control Board Rule 3.2.3 and 7 VSA § 951, the only requirement for the “medical” evaluation is that the health care provider be licensed in Vermont, NY, Massachusetts or New Hampshire. The statutes and the rules do not require an in-person meeting, nor even that the provider examine the applicant’s medical records or consult with the applicant’s mental health care provider or primary care provider. It is quick and easy for anyone to go on-line and find, for a fee paid by credit card, an out-of-state physician to fill out the minimal paperwork.
Under Vermont law teens and older users with these cards can make an unlimited number of purchases of these dangerous drugs, each day. Cannabis Control Board Rule 3.5.5 provides the only sales limits. It states that “In a single transaction,” a cannabis seller cannot sell more than the potency or quantities set by law. Neither the Board’s rules nor Vermont statutes limit the number of transactions per day, or restrict a purchaser from buying from multiple dispensaries. 7 VSA §§ 952, 971.
H.612, if passed, will enlarge these sales from the existing half-dozen dispensaries to the seventy-five recreational cannabis retail stores spread across Vermont. The Cannabis Control Board currently lists six dispensaries.1 If this bill is passed, all 75 retail stores2, by making some changes in their operations and paying a small fee, will be able to become sellers to “medical” card holders.
Colorado already tried this, with disastrous results, and Colorado now requires physician meetings with all med card applicants, requires two physicians for each applicant under 21, and established a statewide registry so that patients can only purchase the amounts their doctor has authorized. https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1317. Unless H.612 is amended to include Colorado’s current protections, the bill should be rejected.
1 https://ccb.vermont.gov/med-dispensaries.
2 https://ccb.vermont.gov/sites/ccb/files/2024-03/Board.Meeting.February.2024_upd.pdf
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Concentration caps are dangerous, and promote products with adulterants. These are safe natural products for most people. Stop being a bunch of whiny babies and hysterics. These products have been used for thousands of years.
People can do what they want with their own bodies. If you stopped with this nonsense, maybe you’d have more political support in areas where it matters.
Pure THC is less dangerous than aspirin. Yet in the very first line it labels THC concentrates as dangerous. yet cites no studies, completely ignores the fact that any vermonter can drive across the border and buy concentrates in Mass and pay much much less. We will never build a vibrant market in this state as long as these pea brains have anything to say about it.
As usual, “Reefer Madness” rears its ugly head. Why buy in VT when you can go elsewhere and get more for less??
Conservatives are not doing yourselves any favors restricting cannabis use…. The “higher” potencies are and have been WIDELY available for years. This is a natural product that cuts into big pharma’s AND cartel profits in a big way. Who side are you on here? Just stop already. Are you purposefully trying to lose 2024 now? That’s what it seems.
It only takes a few bad actors to insert more into a product that doesn’t benefit health, quite the contrary. Particularly, if our government is involved in controlling it and distributing it, chances are the intent is nefarious, not beneficial. How high is too high? Considering they are relaxing drug testing in professions, they may as well make the drugs higher octane to create more accidents, cripple young adults and teens before they have a chance to realize their being enslaved by their Master.
So the “government” is wrong when it regulates and is wrong when it doesn’t regulate? What is your assertion that cannabis doesn’t have any health benefits based on? Your daily knee jerk, fact-free posts are so boring.
Just because pharmaceutical company cronies and shills label one of the biggest threats to their sales bottom line, dangerous, does NOT mean it is.
For instance, there ARE no viruses (look up Pasteur vs. Antoine Bauchamp); pills don’t CURE anything (placebo effect); and God made plants to heal us according to the Bible.
We are playing God again.
And getting in people’s bidness — where gov’t does not belong.
If the same amount of attention were paid to rampant alcoholism and alcoholics serving in our government, we might actually get a line or two closer to TRUTH…
But, sigh…the Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Energy, Big Telecomms have the mammon to serve them… and boy does it work on our weakness and fear…
This is nothing more than a precedent setting genetic engineering of a PLANT that God put on earth… because its properties heal on MANY levels… but you go ahead with the fear campaign.
Ever looked into what pure cane sugar does to the brain and body?
Tied to alcohol???