Episode 24

Cannabis in Vermont, where are we now?

June 11, 2021 (prerecorded 6/9) - Vermont is wending its way towards the creation of a retail cannabis market. Earlier this year, it created the Cannabis Control Board. This three-member board is charged with overseeing the cannabis market. Chair James Pepper joins today's show to update us on the board's work and progress. 

Cannabis Control Board's website: https://ccb.vermont.gov

Theme music by Red Heart the Ticker: http://rhtt.net

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The Montpelier Happy Hour
A show about how things in the State House shake out for the rest of us

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Olga Peters

Producer and host Olga is a journalist by day and a screenwriter by night. On the Montpelier Happy Hour she combines a newshound's doggedness with a fiction writer's sense of "what if...".
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Emilie Kornheiser

Regular contributor Emilie Kornheiser represents Windham District 2-1 in the Vermont House of Representatives (that’s Brattleboro.) She always appreciates an opportunity to unpack the stories that drive us and hopes her gravestone will read “she asked good questions.” You can find more about her and her work in the legislature at emiliekornheiser.org.