The Vermont Democratic Party has formally declared its support for a statewide system to tax and regulate marijuana sales, voting over the weekend to adopt the policy into its official platform.
The party’s embrace of cannabis taxation and regulation comes after recreational use of the drug became legal in July, and represents a significant shift from where the party stood on marijuana policy even just two years ago.
In 2016, the Vermont Democratic Party’s platform stated that it supported “the exploration of the decriminalization of drug use and instead treating it as a health and mental health issue.”
But on Sunday evening, members of the party’s platform committee, which updates the platform every two years, unanimously voted to change the language.
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