Vermont Essentials Manufacturing Delists as Vermont Cannabis Closures Continue
State license roster shows Vermont Essentials Manufacturing, LLC no longer active, joining a string of recent Vermont cannabis license closures.
FILE — closure · Ivan Radic / CC BY 2.0Vermont Essentials Manufacturing, LLC, doing business as Vermont Essentials, is no longer listed as an active license holder in Vermont, according to the state license roster.
The closure is the latest in a series of similar delistings reported via the same state license roster over the past week. Related coverage shows at least eleven other Vermont cannabis operations — including Snowbird Botanicals, Bernis Dobis (The Hashstead), Backcountry Botanicals, Birdseye Botanicals, Friendly Farmers, OK Organix, Green Mountain Scientific Corp., Vermont Greenery, Terpslurper Farms, Stillmore Farms, and Backwoods Farm — losing active status between July 31 and August 4, 2026.
No official license record specific to Vermont Essentials was available in state data at time of publication, leaving details such as license type and location unconfirmed.
The numbers
Vermont's adult-use market currently counts 90 open manufacturing licenses statewide, alongside 311 cultivation and 111 retail licenses, and 2 labs, per state license statistics. Against that base, the manufacturing-sector closure represents a small fraction of active permits, though the cluster of recent closures across cultivation, manufacturing, and other license types suggests a broader pattern of attrition rather than an isolated event.
Monthly sales data for Vermont show cannabis sales holding in a narrow band of roughly $12.1 million to $13.3 million per month from December 2025 through May 2026, with the most recent reported month (May 2026) at about $13.3 million. The state stats list year-to-date revenue as not available in this dataset.
What to watch next
With a dozen Vermont license closures logged by the state roster in under a week, it remains to be seen whether this reflects routine license non-renewals, consolidation, or a wider shakeout in the state's manufacturing and cultivation segments. Subsequent state roster updates and any pending application activity — currently listed at zero — may clarify whether new entrants are replacing exiting operators or whether Vermont's licensed count continues to contract.