Greater clarity on policy and guidance is a major goal for the Vermont Cannabis Control Board. Updates are continually made in the nascent market.
"Usually it just happens in response to a lot of different people reading a lot of the same words on the paper differently," CCB Chairman James Pepper said in an interview. "There's statute, there's rules, there's guidance."
The statute is law enacted by the Legislature. Rules are created under statutes.
"But there's always ambiguity that needs clarification in rule," Pepper said."Then guidance is there to interpret the rules but it doesn't have any legal force. It just shows the world how we're interpreting the rules."
When regulators began noticing that rules aren't lining up with their intent, changes can be made. Pepper said there's no set schedule for such updates.
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