A day after the Virginia legislature sent a retail marijuana sales bill to Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), a spokesperson in his office told Marijuana Moment that there’s no new update on the governor’s stance on the issue, instead citing earlier comments in which he said he doesn’t “have any interest in” signing cannabis commerce legislation.
While some supporters hope he’ll allow the measure to become law, others have predicted Youngkin will veto the bill.
Reached by email on Thursday, Christian Martinez, the governor’s press secretary, was tight-lipped.
“I would refer you back to the Governor’s comments during the gaggle after the State of the Commonwealth,” Martinez told Marijuana Moment in an email, “where he said he doesn’t have a lot of interest in pressing forward with marijuana legalization.”
In those comments, on January 10—before any of the recent major changes to the now-passed legal sales proposal—Youngkin said:
“I’ve said before, this is an area that I really don’t have any interest in. What I want us to work on are areas where we can find a meeting of the mind and press forward to the betterment of Virginia and there are so many of them. This is a chance for
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