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Patient advocates push for medical‑program overhaul, price controls and caregiver rule changes
Summary
Green Mountain Patient Alliance and allied advocates told the Agriculture Committee that Vermont’s medical cannabis program needs urgent reform to protect patients after a major dispensary closure, recommending administrative changes, price management and expanded caregiver rules.
Jessie Lynn Dolan, a registered nurse and co‑founder of the Green Mountain Patients Alliance, testified to the Agriculture Committee on Feb. 11, 2025 that Vermont’s medical cannabis program needs structural reforms to preserve access for patients.
Dolan told the committee the state’s medical program has few medical professionals involved and that the closure of a large medical dispensary — described in testimony as the result of bankruptcy — has made access more precarious for patients. “We have a medical cannabis program that has no medical professionals involved,” Dolan said, urging the…
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