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Medical and prevention experts urge preserving potency caps and opposing larger cannabis packages in S.278
Summary
Representatives of Vermont medical societies and a Burlington prevention coalition told the House committee they support retaining THC potency caps, existing advertising limits and current excise tax allocations and warned higher package sizes and public consumption pilots could increase youth harms.
Jill Satafaran, representing the Medical Society, the Pediatrics of Vermont Chapter and Vermont Family Physicians, and Mariah Flynn, coalition director for the Burlington Partnership for a Healthy Community, told the House committee they were concerned about provisions in S.278 that could increase youth access and normalize higher‑potency products.
Satafaran said the medical community is "not opposed" to the Senate‑passed S.278 overall but urged maintaining three core protections:…
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