Vermont Medical marijuana centers can also use hemp

MONTPELIER — New administrative rules approved by lawmakers Thursday will allow medical marijuana dispensaries to provide therapeutic hemp products and deliver medicinal hemp and marijuana products to the 2,200 people on the state’s registry.

The Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules unanimously approved the new rules after settling on language to exempt farmers from the requirements that the state’s four medical marijuana dispensaries are subject to for hemp production. Some hemp advocates raised concerns at LCAR’s September meeting that the proposed rules could impact the agricultural production of hemp.

The committee has the authority to approve such rules rather than sending them to the full Legislature.

The rules the committee adopted Thursday makes clear that they “shall not apply to or impose any requirements on any other use of hemp” outside of dispensaries.

Joel Bedard, founder and CEO of the Vermont Hemp Company, told the committee he was satisfied with efforts...

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