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Virginia lawmakers again unlikely to set up marijuana sales
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FILE - A cannibis plant that is close to harvest grows in a grow room at the Greenleaf Medical Cannabis facility in Richmond, Va., June 17, 2021. On Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, a Republican-led Virginia House panel defeated the Democratic-controlled Senate’s main surviving retail marijuana bill, which would have allowed sales to begin next year through existing medical marijuana dispensaries and at new retail businesses in communities that have historically been economically disadvantaged. - photo by AP Photo/Steve Helber, File
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — In 2021, Virginia became the first Southern state to legalize marijuana, adopting a policy change that allowed adults to possess and cultivate the drug. But lawmakers didn’t fully enact a framework for recreational retail sales. Partisan gridlock thwarted any movement on the issue last year, and 2023 looks unlikely to be any different.