CRAV: The Cannabis Retailers Association of Vermont.
Founded, in 2023, to represent the interests and needs of the exploding cannabis market.
Their website is: crvt.org. It’s an easy website to navigate with interesting content about what CVRT’s objectives are. What I found quite interesting was their list of how many businesses there are in Vermont: 2 Testing, 2 Integrated, 8 Wholesaler, 93 Manufacturer, 110 Retailers and 408 Cultivators. That’s amazing in such a short time since the recreational legal marketplace opened in Vermont in October 2022.
It’s easy to forget that this new market, legal cannabis, is just a toddler. There are so many pot shops around, it seems like it’s been this way forever. And, thankfully so.
The near term road ahead for retail cannabis is rocky given the current limitation on new retail cannabis licenses. The deleterious effect this limitation is having is measurable: both in lost revenue and lost product, and of the producers of cannabis-based products.
The market for legal cannabis is enormous, and organizations like the CVRT allow those businesses with a stake in the future to be a part of the finding the best solutions.
