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Accusations were slung Wednesday during a heated Development Review Board meeting regarding a proposal for a commercial cannabis growing operation on East Washington Street.

Scott Sparks, the former vice president of Black River Produce, long harbored a desire to be involved in the cannabis industry. Growing tired of his job that transformed Black River

On her remote land in Woodbury, Jezebel Crow wants to start a weed farm. Crow, who raises goats and works in the Plainfield Co-op's produce...

The flyers advertised a business luncheon, but the crowd passing between the velvet ropes and into Einstein's Tap House in Burlington exuded a different vibe....

Kyle Thompson/steez Art By July, Ben Cohen will launch a cannabis business in Colorado. If it were a pot-infused ice cream company, the cofounder of Ben & Jerrys could call it Stoned Cold. But Cohens venture will produce low-THC, high-terpene pre-rolled joints. In an interview with Seven Days, he wouldnt reveal its name — despite the pun potential. The Vermont entrepreneur did, howeve...

Jahala Dudley with a hemp plant Just two years ago, hemp looked like a crop that could inject some life into Vermonts flagging agricultural economy. At Statehouse meetings, entrepreneurs, lawmakers and regulators who were giddy with optimism talked of harnessing the profits of the fast-growing industry for societal good.  One of them was Carl Christianson, who had just set up a hemp processing facility and testing lab in a newly purchased 10,00...

Illustration When Vermont lawmakers left the Statehouse last March amid the worsening pandemic, they werent the only ones evicted from their stately digs. The army of lobbyists who work to influence the legislative process was also driven from those corridors of power. Unable to buttonhole senators in the halls or grab lunch with committee chairs in the cafeteria, lobbyists found their working lives disrupted by the pandemic as profoundly as any ba...

Hartford Selectboard won’t put retail marijuana before voters at Town Meeting Modified: 1/20/2021 10:48:02 PM WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — As towns across Vermont consider whether to allow dispensaries following a new state law legalizing the sale of recreational cannabis, Selectboard members have decided Hartford isn’t ready to answer that question. “I’m extremely apprehensive about putting something on the ballot where we don’t have as much information as we should have,” board member...

Luke Eastman Vermonts new law establishing a retail marijuana market does too little to recruit people of color to the legal cannabis industry, racial justice advocates say. They are calling for changes to ensure that members of groups disproportionately targeted by past enforcement of cannabis laws would be poised to benefit when the legal market comes online in May 2022.  "For those se...