Virginia’s 60-day General Assembly session adjourned Saturday without the state’s Republican governor signing into law a bill finally legalizing adult-use marijuana sales.

That’s partly because the Democratic-controlled General Assembly has yet to formally send Gov. Glenn Youngkin the bill, according to the Virginia Mercury.

But it’s also because Democratic opposition to a Youngkin pet project – a publicly financed basketball and hockey arena in a Washington DC suburb – is ending hopes of bipartisan cooperation on other issues, including recreational cannabis sales.

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This latest conflict with Youngkin means marijuana sales in Virgina is “up in smoke,” state Delegate Paul Krizek, D-Alexandria, told the Mercury.

Virginia legalized adult-use marijuana possession and home growing in 2021, but the bill signed into law by then-Gov. Ralph

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