Author: Alex Moore

Before anything else: this is not a green light. Nobody just legalized weed in Virginia. If you go out this week acting like the market’s open, you can still get arrested, and depending on which county you’re standing in, you can still get convicted. Discovery Timeline This started last week, when Nate Green, Commonwealth’s Attorney…

“We have a deal!” Delegate Paul Krizek announced on Friday. A joint press conference with Governor Spanberger is scheduled for Tuesday to make it official, but the House Conference Proposal Budget Amendment Package, which is 954 pages and finalized June 11, is already public. The framework is in there. We read it so you don’t…

Our governor clearly is not afraid of being VA cannabis’s most hated, and with 70% of constituents being pro retail cannabis, that seems like an odd position to take for someone with presidential aspirations. Approval ratings be damned, less than a month after vetoing retail legislation, Spanberger is instituting a framework to police the exact…

Once close allies, Spanberger’s proposed amendments blew a hole in the relationship, and the raid on Lucas made it permanent. Now they’re going head to head publicly. Here’s what you need to know. Virginia’s cannabis fight has been covered from every angle: the veto, the votes, the timeline, the people still waiting on resentencing hearings.…

Spanberger signed HB 26 and SB 62 the same week she vetoed the retailmarket. Here is what the law actually does, who it covers, and whypeople who should qualify are already at risk of being left behind. Virginia’s cannabis resentencing law is real and people will benefit fromit. HB 26 and SB 62, signed May…

Possession has been legal since 2021. You still cannot buy it anywhere regulated. That is not a coincidence. It is a policy outcome, and the people who engineered it just got raided by the FBI. Let me just say what everybody in the industry already knows and nobody in Richmond wants to say out loud:…