HB 1855
Craft Beer Craft Wine Craft Spirits CRAFT CANNABIS
Defining CRAFT Production within all of these industries gave consumers a chance to connect directly with producers, bringing transparency, trust, education, community, understanding
Why should CANNABIS be any different?
[It shouldn’t, and it wasn’t.]
This important economic relationship between Cannabis Producers and Cannabis Consumers was one of the most lamented losses in the introduction of the regulated adult use market. Offering this limited allowance, for Craft Growers to sell their products to consumers where they are grown, will restore these relationships and improve the economy for all involved.
HB1855 parallels the successful approach to Craft Production that the alcohol industry has been provided with through the defining and regulation of Craft Beer, Wine, and Spirits.
While each of these industries offers slightly different approaches, they have all created distinct definitions for these small operators and all offer direct to consumer paths to market for them.
CRAFT BREWERIES
CRAFT DISTILLERIES
WINERIES
It’s time we use this approach to support our own small producers in the Cannabis Industry.
There is no reason that small operators within Cannabis should not be offered the same definition and support.
The current policy to prohibit vertically-integrated businesses from owning both farms and retail stores was prioritized in I-502 to prevent consolidation of the cannabis supply chain by large companies.
HB1855 looks to build on that intent, by allowing independently-owned and operated small farms to be explicitly identified from other businesses in order to protect and preserve the CRAFT-scale Production that is currently under threat.
