Chris Bates – Vermont House, Bennington 2-1

What, in your mind, is the ideal structure for a functional legal Tax and Regulate system? How would you work with other branches of government to create this kind of system?

Need more information to answer this question

How would you assess Vermont’s current medical marijuana program? How will you ensure that registered medical patients and caregivers have access to an abundance of high-quality cannabis products priced at or below market rates?
I would need more information to answer this question
How will you ensure that people who’ve been disproportionately affected by prohibition (such as convicts and People Of Color) will have an equal opportunity to participate in Vermont’s legal cannabis industry? In particular, how will you work for statewide expungement of convictions for possession?
what kind of convictions? I would need more information on this topic
How will you make sure that all Vermonters have equal access to joining the legal cannabis industry as small and startup businesses?
Like any other business, go thru the process
Do you think state can sustain both a medical and a recreational program – or would you combine cannabis regulations into one system?
The state could sustain both programs with the right legislation
If tax-and-regulate is passed, how would you prefer to allocate cannabis revenues? To the general fund or to specific causes? If specific, please share any proposals.
Specific causes, Education, infrastructure, low income projects
Would you allow Vermont towns to enact temporary moratoriums or outright bans on legal cannabis businesses?
NO!