Virginia’s governor may have vetoed bills to legalize recreational marijuana sales last week, but that doesn’t mean it can’t still happen this year. Top lawmakers are openly discussing the possibility of including provisions to enact the cannabis reform in still-outstanding budget legislation that they are due to pass by July 1.
Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell (D), for example, said the issue is not “dead” for 2026 yet.
“It is possible for us, however, to put policy like that into the budget and adopt it in the budget and then put that on the governor’s desk,” Surovell, who also chairs the Courts of Justice Committee, told WJLA-TV on Tuesday. “So I wouldn’t say that the cannabis retail market is totally dead yet for this year.”
The governor’s office did not respond to the news outlet’s request for comment about whether she would sign or veto a budget that includes provisions to legalize adult-use marijuana sales despite her recent veto.
Meanwhile, Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas (D) said that the governor’s vetoes of legislation on marijuana sales and other issues means that the state is “further off” in generating revenue that those reforms would have provided toward the
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