Vermont cannabis law
Key points
Legal status
Fully legal
Possession limits
| Medical patients | 2 oz |
| Recreational users | 1 oz |
State taxes
| Medical patients | 0% |
| Recreational users | 14% excise tax plus 6% sales tax |
Cultivation
| Medical patients | 6 mature, 12 immature plants |
| Recreational users | 2 mature, 4 immature plants |
Cultivation is legal
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- Any patient receiving hospice care
- Cachexia or wasting syndrome
- Cancer
- Crohn’s disease
- Glaucoma
- HIV or AIDS
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Parkinson’s disease
- PTSD
- Seizures
- Severe or chronic pain
- Severe nausea
Two ounces of usable marijuana. Single servings of medical cannabis products may possess no more than 100 mgs of THC.
Yes, no more than 12 marijuana plants, of which no more than six may be mature. Patients are explicitly permitted to possess the total harvest of their plants.
Yes. Dispensaries may lawfully engage in home delivery.
Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, §§ 4471- 4474d (2003)
Vt. Stat. Ann. Tit. 18, §4472(6); 4474(1),(2)(c) (2003)
Registered caregivers may serve no more than two registered patients at a time.
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Source: Cannabis Control Board, as of January 2024
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