The long-awaited launch of adult-use cannabis sales in Virginia may finally be at hand after Democratic candidate Abigail Spanberger was elected governor on Tuesday.
While Spanberger’s election was biggest and most positive development for the cannabis industry to emerge from Election Day on Tuesday, elsewhere across the country, voters seemed keen to restrict or outlaw legal marijuana businesses.
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Despite legalizing adult-use cannabis in 2021 and a medical cannabis industry worth roughly $180 million annually, Virginia has yet to set up regulated commercial adult-use cannabis activity.
Bills to do so were repeatedly vetoed by outgoing Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin over the past few years.
When will adult-use marijuana sales start in Virginia?
That’s set to change after Spanberger, a former member of Congress, defeated
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