Vermont cannabis regulators are looking to ensure a product registration system is being used as efficiently as possible.
At a roundtable hosted by the board on Oct. 22, general counsel Gabe Gilman credited the pre-market approval and registration system with helping to avoid "after the fact enforcement."
"So a lot of good is done in that way," he said, adding that it "also produces some degree of consistency and standardization of the label and the look of Vermont registered and regulated cannabis products so they have kind of a distinctive look and feel, to some extent, to consumers, and so that consumers can distinguish those regulated products from unregulated products that continue to persist out in the world."
Due to the federal status of cannabis, Gilman said, "you see small administrative agencies, state by state, trying to take up issues about product safety, additives, that kind of thing that in most other contexts, almost every other context, would be dealt with at the federal level."
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