Within days of Maryland launching its adult-use market, a member of the Youngkin administration clarified the governor's stance on retail sales.
“Gov. Youngkin has stated that he is not interested in any further moves towards legalization of adult recreational-use marijuana, so I wouldn’t expect that during his administration,” Joseph Guthrie, commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, said at a public meeting in late June., reinforced a widely held belief among Democrats and industry stakeholders that Youngkin would seek to sidestep the issue as he raises his national profile.
While marijuana remains illegal under federal law, a cultural shift in acceptance of the plant and desire to eliminate racial disparities in law enforcement has seen 23 states roll back restrictions as voters embrace choice and officials welcome tax revenue.nearly $21 million in retail sales in the week of July 1, when it became the first state in the Mid-Atlantic to launch a legal recreational market. But for now, Maryland’s adult-use market is an outlier in the region.
“The house Republicans and Gov. Youngkin have not been helpful in moving cannabis policy forward in Virginia,” said Sen. Adam P. Ebbin, a Democrat from Northern Virginia who this yearEbbin said that Virginia’s best hope for setting up a legal market for recreational cannabis sales would come from Democrats seizing control of the State House following theIf Democrats held both chambers of the General Assembly, “I would think we could get a bill passed,” Ebbin said.
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