Virginia adult-use cannabis sales could begin Nov. 1, 2026 – and small businesses might get first crack ahead of big marijuana multistate operators.
That’s under a proposed regulatory framework state lawmakers plan to present to Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger, who has promised to finally launch legal sales after years of obstructionism.
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Virginia became the first state in the South to legalize recreational marijuana in 2021, and state lawmakers twice passed a bill that would have launched regulated sales.
However, outgoing Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed the bills twice.
Since Youngkin’s last veto – and ahead of Spanberger’s election in November – lawmakers on a Joint Commission on the Future of Cannabis Sales have been concocting a proposed regulatory framework.
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