Take Action → Contact the Senate Committee on Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs Using the Sample Email and Phone Script

Take a moment to send an email and call each member of this key committee. Note that we have included the sample script in each email link to send an email. Please edit the message by customizing it with your own story and language explaining why these issues are important to you.

Senate Committee on Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs:

• Sen. Alison Clarkson, Chair — p:(802) 457-4627 – Send email →

• Sen. Randy Brock, Vice Chair — p:(802) 868-2300 — Send email →

• Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale — p:(802) 828-2228 — Send email →

• Sen. Thomas Chittenden — p:(802) 828-2228 — Send email →

• Sen. David Weeks, Clerk — p:(802) 417-9013 — Send email →

Sample Email and Phone Script:

Dear Senator,

My name is [YOUR NAME]. I live [AND/OR OPERATE A LICENSE, SUPPORT LICENSEES] in [CITY/TOWN], Vermont.

It has been brought to my attention that Bill S.278 is before your committee. Please amend the bill before the crossover deadline by:

• Strengthening the industry and Community Reinvestment in Section 29 of Bill S.278, including beginning to open up financial and technical assistance currently available to the broader farming community;

• Strengthen the permit language in Section 7 of Bill S.278 to increase its potential to capture market share and generate tax revenue, and center it around small producers;

• Add long-sought, systemic Medical Cannabis Program reforms, such as reestablishing a community-oriented oversight committee and moving conditions and symptom management under the Cannabis Control Board; and,

• Add the public consumption language from Bill S.275 into S.278, complete the work to expunge Vermonters cannabis records, which unfortunately remains outstanding, include antitrust language, and more as recommended by the Vermont Cannabis Equity Coalition.

[OFFER YOUR OWN EXPERIENCES HERE – SUCH AS, AS A SHOPPER, THESE REFORMS WILL ALLOW ME TO DIRECTLY SUPPORT LOCAL SMALL PRODUCERS AND PROVIDE GREATER TAX REVENUE FOR THE STATE AND ALLOW THE REGULATED MARKET TO OUTCOMPETE THE LEGACY MARKET AND NEIGHBORING STATE MARKETS; OR, AS A LICENSEE, THESE REFORMS WILL INCREASE THE FAIRNESS, VIBRANCY, AND OVERALL COMPETITIVENESS OF THE REGULATED MARKET TO OUTCOMPETE THE LEGACY MARKET AND NEIGHBORING STATE MARKETS.]

I request that you implement the recommendations of the Vermont Cannabis Equity Coalition, including the top-level priorities listed above, in Bill S.278 in committee before the crossover deadline.

Thank you for supporting Vermont’s regulated cannabis industry.

[YOUR NAME]