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The Associated Press reports:
Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed two top Democratic legislative priorities on Thursday: bills that would have allowed the recreational retail sales of marijuana to begin next year and measures mandating a minimum wage increase.
In 2021, Virginia became the first Southern state to legalize marijuana, adopting a policy change that allowed adults age 21 and up to possess and cultivate the drug. But the state didn’t set up retail sales at the time and still hasn’t, due to shifts in partisan power and policy differences since then.
Under the bills, the state would have started taking applications on Sept. 1 for cultivating, testing, processing and selling the drug in preparation for the market to open May 1, 2025, with products taxed at a rate of up to 11.625%.
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🚨 Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed legislation that would have created a retail marijuana market in Virginia.
“Cannabis is bad for Virginia,” Youngkin told me @7NewsDC pic.twitter.com/wI8WwvoJl3
— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) March 28, 2024
Nobody can seriously argue that the widespread legalization of marijuana has had a positive impact on society.
Good call by Youngkin. https://t.co/6rkXFLfhO2
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) March 29, 2024