Culpeper moonshine distillery Belmont Farm hosts 1st VA Cannabis Grower Symposium, laid back event with focus on education, business, agriculture, freedom following July 1 legalization.
Day-long, ticketed, educational event for 21-and-older will be Aug. 28 at Belmont Farms Distillery in Culpeper County, recognizing July 1 legalization of marijuana in state.
Virginia has officially legalized the recreational use of marijuana for adults over 21, doing away with penalties for possession below one ounce, decriminalizing possession up to a pound and allowing for sharing by adults.
Local state senator weighs in on why he's against cannabis legalization now, the November election, the end of COVID and Juneteenth.
As July 1 nears, employers in Virginia are evaluating what the commonwealth’s legalization of marijuana for recreational use means for the workplace.
Some have said Virginia is opening that door too quickly, or should avoid it altogether, while others see it as a positive step and point to advantages that range from enhanced medical uses to the windfall of impending tax revenue.
Kisare Bundy had been on probation for most of his adult life when, at 22, a marijuana possession charge sent him to prison for just under a decade.
With Virginia legalizing the recreational use of marijuana by adults, King George voters would have to approve a measure in a referendum to ban its sale in the county.
A medical marijuana provider in New York City is ready to help business owners in communities of color enter the adult use cannabis market onc…
New York lawmakers have finalized an agreement to legalize recreational marijuana sales to adults over the age of 21.
Episode 7: Other topics include whether news stories about relatively minor crimes should stay online forever, and which tactics work best when dealing with unreasonable people.
Virginia lawmakers took key steps toward making Virginia the 16th state to legalize marijuana, as the House and Senate voted separately Friday to allow recreational use by adults, with retail sales by 2024.
With marijuana legalization on the horizon, a broad coalition of Democrats in the Senate say it would be wrong to continue penalizing Virginians for possessing small amounts of the drug — even if no legal market exists.
Localities that don’t wish to have marijuana retailers in their jurisdictions may be able to opt out via referendum, according to a recommendation from a Senate panel examining a proposal to legalize the drug in Virginia.
Gov. Ralph Northam's administration is proposing legalizing the recreational use of marijuana in Virginia, with a 21% state tax on the drug and a licensing program meant to ease entry for people harmed by the disparate enforcement of marijuana laws.
It estimates that it will take 18 to 24 month for legalization to be actualized, and at least five years for Virginia to have a mature legal marijuana industry.
Large investments in robust data collection, new regulation and public education should precede the legalization of recreational marijuana in Virginia — a landscape that “cannot be created quickly.”
Gov. Ralph Northam threw the weight of his administration behind efforts to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Virginia, citing racial inequities in how laws around the drug are enforced and promising a meticulous regulatory process on the path to making it widely available.
If lawmakers in Virginia move forward, the state would become the first in the South to authorize recreational use of the drug by adults.
1 in 3 Americans Now Live in a State , Where Recreational Marijuana Is Legal. Voters in four states approved ballot measures to legalize marij…
1 in 3 Americans Now Live in a State , Where Recreational Marijuana Is Legal. Voters in four states approved ballot measures to legalize marij…
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ATLANTIC CITY — Advocates for legalizing recreational cannabis talked about how creating a new industry could jump start South Jersey’s sluggish economy at a forum Wednesday hosted by Democratic congressional candidate Brigid Callahan Harrison, of Longport.
With Democrats poised to take control of the Virginia General Assembly in January, community member Sebastian Wicker and University of Mary Wa…
Support for legalization has continued to climb as more states have loosened restrictions.
