A Virginia state senator says he’s “confident” that lawmakers can send a bill to tax and regulate marijuana sales to Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) in the coming year. The question now is whether supporters can build enough bipartisan support to avoid a potential veto.
“I am confident, with Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate, that we can get a bill to the governor’s desk,” Sen. Adam Ebbin (D) said in a local TV news interview that aired over the weekend. “The challenge is going to be we want to make that bill bipartisan anyway. We want the governor to see the bipartisan support.”
In comments to ABC affiliate WSET, Ebbin, who has indicated his intent to file a marijuana sales bill in the new session, said he wasn’t able to discuss details of the forthcoming proposal “because we are just getting the final draft details together still with legislative services.”
“But I would say the focus of the bill,” he added, “is to provide legal sales to consenting adults and to clamp down on the black market and see that adults that chose to use cannabis get a product that is tested and safer than an unregulated black
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