Tag: Virginia
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Beyond/Hello Set To Open Four New Medical Weed Dispensaries In Northern Virginia
Beyond/Hello, one of only four companies licensed to sell cannabis in Virginia, says it’s gearing up to open four new dispensaries in the commonwealth over the next year. All four locations will be in Northern Virginia. One of them, located along Richmond Highway in Alexandria, could start serving patients “within two to four weeks,” Beyond/Hello’s…
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Virginia Regulators Are Planning A Crackdown on Hemp Extracts Like Delta-8
Virginia regulators plan to step up efforts to rein in the sale and production of THC products that are synthetically derived from the hemp plant, like Delta-8. The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) and Office of the Attorney General (OAG) announced last week that business owners who don’t fall in line with…
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Virginia Weed Patients Soon Won’t Need To Register With The State. That’s A Big Deal.
Cannabis advocates in Virginia were laser-focused last month on stopping a bill that threatened to devastate the commonwealth’s hemp industry while creating new crimes for pot possession. Their efforts paid off when the measure was narrowly voted down by the General Assembly, but the passage of another consequential piece of weed legislation may have gotten…
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How Youngkin Turned A Simple Bill Into A ‘Monster’ For Virginia’s Hemp Industry
When first introduced by Virginia Senator Emmett Hanger, S.B. 591 wasn’t the apocalyptic measure that some in the hemp industry now see it as. The bill didn’t include anything about Delta-8 and hardly mentioned hemp. Initially, it mostly dealt with regulating the commonwealth’s medical cannabis industry by prohibiting the sale of weed products in candy-like…
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The Sesh: Dr. Chanda Macias On Becoming An ‘OG’ Of Medical Weed
It’s been nearly a decade since D.C. opened its first medical cannabis dispensary. Since then, the District’s medical cannabis industry has gone through numerous ups and downs: from drastic regulatory changes to the rise of a parallel weed “gifting” economy that is increasingly cutting into its bottom line. And that’s not to mention regular interference…
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The Sesh: Grindstone On Gifting And The Growth Of Cannabis In D.C.
It’s finally here: In episode one of The Sesh, a new podcast from The Outlaw Report, host Kevin Lance Murray sits down with Grindstone, CEO of Adams Morgan gifting shop Peace In The Air. He’s an active part of the local cannabis community, focused on ensuring equity in the shift toward for recreational legalization. The conversation spans…
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How Did The Push For Legal Weed In Virginia Go So Wrong?
This time last year, Virginia Democrats were sky high. While holding the executive and legislative branches, Democrats managed to legalize possession of marijuana in the Commonwealth while becoming the first southern state to do so. Better yet, legalization was imminent, set to be the law of the land by July 1 as an effort to…
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Virginia Senate Committee Kills Psilocybin Decriminalization Bill
A nascent effort to decriminalize psilocybin in Virginia fell short Monday after a state Senate committee voted to indefinitely table the legislation. After two January hearings on SB 262, which would have lowered possession of psilocybin and psilocin from a felony offense to a misdemeanor punishable with a $100 civil fine, the Virginia Senate Judiciary…
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Virginia Lawmakers Hit Impasse Over Releasing Cannabis Prisoners After Legalization
In Virginia, the fate of people incarcerated for cannabis-related crimes is still up in the air. On Monday, Virginia’s Cannabis Oversight Commission, a panel of lawmakers charged with making legislative recommendations for this year’s session, proposed speeding up the launch of recreational weed sales by one full year to 2023. But the 10-member commission couldn’t…
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Virginia: Youngkin Says Legal Weed Possession Is Here To Stay But Takes Aim At Retail Sales
Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin says he won’t mess with a recently enacted law that legalized cannabis possession when he takes office later this month, though he has reservations about the launch of a regulated market for recreational weed. “I will not seek to overturn the law on personal possession,” he told Virginia Business in an…