Will Virginia legalize marijuana now that the Democrats are the majority?
Democrats managed to flip the Virginia House and Senate in this month’s election, taking control of state government for the first time in more than two decades.
What does that blue map mean for legalizing marijuana?
A reader wondered and wrote to The Pilot’s Glad You Asked initiative.
Attorney General Mark Herring believes that the state is ready to decriminalize and legalize marijuana. He said that past bills have been bottled up by Republican-controlled committees, but now that leadership is changing, we may see a different outcome.
“Now that Democrats are in the majority, I think we’ve got a real opportunity to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana and I hope we will take real, concrete steps toward legal and regulated adult use,” he said in an interview. “Polling shows that the vast majority of Virginians support decriminalization and a solid majority support legalization.”
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