Everything below is real. You can’t buy it here yet.
The VT regulator, statutes, tax stack and track-and-trace on this page are researched and current. We can set up stores in Washington and Arizona today, and VTis not one of them — so there is nothing to sign up for here, and we won’t pretend otherwise. (Washington’s CCRS is still the only track-and-trace we have integrated; Arizona mandates none, which is why it could open without one. A state that mandates one needs that adapter built first.)
CCB
Vermont CCB-aware dispensary platform
Native compliance hooks for Vermont Cannabis Control Board rules. State-built CCB Portal traceability — real-time point-of-sale reporting to the Inventory Tracking System API plus a monthly inventory reconciliation, and Vermont mandates no vendor seed-to-sale system — 14% adult-use cannabis excise + 6% Vermont sales tax (20% combined), and the social-equity / craft-tier / integrated-license topology Vermont uniquely structured under Act 164.
Regulator
Vermont Cannabis Control Board (CCB)
https://ccb.vermont.gov ↗Statutes that bite
| Citation | Subject |
|---|---|
| 7 V.S.A. Ch. 33-37 | Vermont’s cannabis chapters, all added by Act 164 (2020) — Ch. 33 Cannabis Establishments (adult-use plus medical-use retail endorsements), Ch. 35 Medical Cannabis Registry, Ch. 37 Medical Cannabis Dispensaries; the medical chapters effective 2022-03-01 |
| 18 V.S.A. Ch. 86 | REPEALED IN FULL by Act 164 §11 effective 2022-03-01 and contains only repeal notices — Vermont’s medical programme is now 7 V.S.A. Ch. 35 (Medical Cannabis Registry) and Ch. 37 (Medical Cannabis Dispensaries) |
| 7 V.S.A. §881(a)(1)(J) + CCB Rule 2.2.6 | Board seed-to-sale rulemaking mandate and the resulting Rule 2.2.6 — Inventory Tracking System from cultivation through retail sale, with inventory reconciled MONTHLY and completed within 15 days of month end (the every-two-weeks report is portal guidance, not the rule) |
| 32 V.S.A. §7901-7903 | 14% Vermont Cannabis Excise Tax statute |
Tax stack
Excise
14% Vermont Cannabis Excise Tax (32 V.S.A. §7901-7903) — applied at retail on adult-use only. Sales by a dispensary or a medical-use-endorsed retailer to registered patients or their registered caregivers are exempt from this excise (§7902(d)(2)).
Sales / Use
6% Vermont sales-and-use tax — computed on the SAME sales price as the 14% cannabis excise, not on top of it: 32 V.S.A. §7902(c) provides the excise "shall not be part of the sales price to which the general sales and use tax applies", and the two must be separately itemized on the receipt. Total state stack: 20% on adult-use. Medical sales are exempt from the 14% excise under §7902(d)(2) AND from this 6% under 32 V.S.A. §9741(55) — but that exemption is conditional, not a status: it reaches cannabis "sold by any dispensary as authorized under 7 V.S.A. chapter 37 or any retailer licensed with a medical-use endorsement as authorized under 7 V.S.A. chapter 33, provided that the cannabis or cannabis product is sold only to registered qualifying patients directly or through their registered caregivers." A retailer without the medical-use endorsement may not zero-rate a sale to a patient. §9741(55) also carries a duty a retailer must meet to claim it: they "shall retain information pertaining to each exempt transaction as required by the Commissioner of Taxes."
Local option
Vermont has no cannabis-specific local tax — what stacks is the GENERAL 1% Local Option Sales Tax, which reaches cannabis like any other taxable sale. More than thirty municipalities levy it, including essentially every town with cannabis retail (Burlington, Montpelier, Brattleboro, Rutland City, Winooski, South Burlington, Barre City, Essex Junction, Colchester, Middlebury, Waterbury, Stowe, Williston). Assume 1% applies and confirm your town against the Department of Taxes list at onboarding.
Compliance topics surfaced in-platform
- Age 21+ adult-use / registered-patient medical with NO age floor — Vermont exempts registered patients from the under-21 dispensary ban (7 V.S.A. §866(b)) and grants the purchase right to the patient directly (§952(b))
- Real-time point-of-sale reporting to the CCB Inventory Tracking System API (Rule 2.8.2(b); pre-existing systems may report at least every 24 hours until obsolete) + monthly inventory reconciliation completed within 15 days of month end (Rule 2.2.6(c)) — Vermont runs its own portal, no Metrc, no BioTrack
- Patient registry lookup hook (Vermont Therapeutic Use of Cannabis Patient ID)
- Daily inventory reconciliation export shaped for CCB record-keeping
- License-tier flagging — Vermont uniquely separates ‘cultivator-only’ / ‘manufacturer-only’ / ‘retailer-only’ / ‘integrated-license’ / ‘social-equity’ tiers, with different reporting cadences per tier
What CannAgent is built toward for VT
- Adult-use + medical lanes with separate tax stacks — 20% combined on adult-use (14% excise + 6% sales tax on the same base), and BOTH waived on medical only where the seller is a dispensary or holds a medical-use endorsement AND the buyer is a registered qualifying patient or their registered caregiver (32 V.S.A. §9741(55)), which also requires records for every exempt sale
- License-tier-aware reporting (cultivator / manufacturer / retailer / integrated / social-equity)
- CCB-Portal-shaped inventory tracking report + monthly reconciliation on the Rule 2.2.6(c) 15-day deadline (generated on the CCB's cadence, ready to submit)
- Daily reconciliation report (auto-runs at close)
- Manager write-up assistant configurable to VT labor + CCB rule taxonomy
Coverage here — honestly
Vermont coverage is written against CCB rules: the bulletins, the multi-tier license topology under Act 164 (cultivator / manufacturer / retailer / integrated / social-equity, each with different reporting cadences), the medical-vs-adult-use tax split (20% combined on adult-use; both taxes waived on medical only where the seller is a dispensary or medical-use-endorsed retailer AND the buyer is a registered qualifying patient or their registered caregiver), and the CCB Portal’s inventory-reporting cadence — real-time sales to the tracking API, monthly reconciliation within 15 days of month end. We keep it current as the CCB moves, and where something isn’t built for VT yet we say so before you sign.
Operator playbooks
Compliance ops playbook
State traceability reconciliation — the daily, weekly, monthly discipline
Buyer scorecard
Picking a cannabis POS: the 7-question scorecard
Migration playbook
POS migration: a 4-week playbook for cannabis dispensaries
Operations deep-dive
Cash discipline at a cannabis dispensary: variance, escalation, audit
Vermont cannabis retail — common questions
- Who regulates cannabis retail in Vermont?
- Vermont Cannabis Control Board (CCB) is the state cannabis regulator for Vermont. Official site: https://ccb.vermont.gov.
- What seed-to-sale track-and-trace system does Vermont use?
- Vermont runs its own state-built licensee reporting portal for seed-to-sale tracking (no vendor platform like METRC or BioTrack, and no integrator API). CannAgent generates the portal-ready inventory tracking report on the regulator's cadence; the licensee submits it through the portal.
- What cannabis taxes apply to retail in Vermont?
- 14% Vermont Cannabis Excise Tax (32 V.S.A. §7901-7903) — applied at retail on adult-use only. Sales by a dispensary or a medical-use-endorsed retailer to registered patients or their registered caregivers are exempt from this excise (§7902(d)(2)). 6% Vermont sales-and-use tax — computed on the SAME sales price as the 14% cannabis excise, not on top of it: 32 V.S.A. §7902(c) provides the excise "shall not be part of the sales price to which the general sales and use tax applies", and the two must be separately itemized on the receipt. Total state stack: 20% on adult-use. Medical sales are exempt from the 14% excise under §7902(d)(2) AND from this 6% under 32 V.S.A. §9741(55) — but that exemption is conditional, not a status: it reaches cannabis "sold by any dispensary as authorized under 7 V.S.A. chapter 37 or any retailer licensed with a medical-use endorsement as authorized under 7 V.S.A. chapter 33, provided that the cannabis or cannabis product is sold only to registered qualifying patients directly or through their registered caregivers." A retailer without the medical-use endorsement may not zero-rate a sale to a patient. §9741(55) also carries a duty a retailer must meet to claim it: they "shall retain information pertaining to each exempt transaction as required by the Commissioner of Taxes." Vermont has no cannabis-specific local tax — what stacks is the GENERAL 1% Local Option Sales Tax, which reaches cannabis like any other taxable sale. More than thirty municipalities levy it, including essentially every town with cannabis retail (Burlington, Montpelier, Brattleboro, Rutland City, Winooski, South Burlington, Barre City, Essex Junction, Colchester, Middlebury, Waterbury, Stowe, Williston). Assume 1% applies and confirm your town against the Department of Taxes list at onboarding.
- Is CannAgent available for Vermont dispensaries?
- Regulatory-summary coverage for Vermont is current; engineering capacity opens as operator demand lands. There is no VT queue to join yet — read the rules here, and come back when you want a second opinion on a VT question.
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We know Vermont’s rules. We don’t sell here yet.
Everything above is researched against the CCB and kept current. We can only set up stores in Washington and Arizona today, so there is no quote to give you and no queue to join. Read the rules, keep the page, and come back when you want a second opinion on VT.