Va. cannabis authority clarifies law

Cannabis is legal in the Commonwealth, though it is not as open as other states with legalization. Virginia has a few restrictions.

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23 Comments

  1. @avery1234530 on August 13, 2025 at 2:40 pm

    Look how they could not make a minute and a half news story without finding a way to inject something gay in the report.
    They had to include it somewhere, somehow… so they made a rainbow cannabis backdrop.🤦‍♂️
    As far as the law goes, I agree wholeheartedly that people should not drive while smoking and I will take it to another level and say even cigarettes, eating and drinking beverages are a distraction in my mind, so everyone better be glad I’m not running things because I would attempt to make it to where none of that is ok.
    Until you reach your destination, you have one purpose operating a vehicle and that is to drive safely for the sake of everyone else on the road.
    With that said I also think cannabis should be as easy to obtain as alcohol.
    Although, it is easily obtained if you get a prescription for it.
    The prescription is about $100, renewable yearly, according to a few coworkers.
    A prescription can be obtained over the phone, they send you an email with your prescription immediately.
    That very day one can go to a dispensary and make a purchase.
    This all sounds fine except while you have that prescription you cannot obtain a conceal and carry license.
    Therein lies the problem I think.
    So…a drunk can purchase alcohol with no prescription, and still obtain a conceal and carry permit…but not someone who smokes cannabis legally, with a prescription.
    This makes no sense to me and seems completely backwards.

  2. @TheAngryCracker on August 13, 2025 at 2:43 pm

    Laws mean nothing without enforcement… and in Virginia laws are rarely enforced.

  3. @hammyhamhamster5993 on August 13, 2025 at 2:44 pm

    Prohibition and Reefer Madness are only pushed and believed by a very small, lunatic-fringe minority of irrational looney-tune Holier Than Thou types that are on a never ending little personal moral-crusade and witch-hunt against relatively benign cannabis and it’s consumers. The rest of us sane, rational, normal Americans just laugh our butts off at and mock utterly desperate lying prohibitionists and their ridiculous Reefer-Madness-Rhetoric as the comedy show they truly are!

  4. @TheGamingXchange on August 13, 2025 at 2:46 pm

    Such bs I smell people driving high all the time as they fly by me at 65 in a 45. And nothing is ever done. Driving high should be immediately loss of license

  5. @JayNichols-h7i on August 13, 2025 at 2:47 pm

    Coming from a Missourian where weed is legal. Your Governor is a complete disgrace and joke to America. What a complete backwards fool. He would rather have the black market make billions.

  6. @hammyhamhamster5993 on August 13, 2025 at 2:53 pm

    Legalizing Cannabis will not create a massive influx of marijuana impaired drivers on our roads. It will not create an influx of professionals (doctors, pilots, bus drivers, etc..) under the influence on the job either. This is a prohibitionist propaganda scare tactic.

    Truth: Responsible drivers don’t drive while impaired on any substance period!

    Irresponsible drivers are already on our roads, and they will drive while impaired regardless of their drug of choice’s legality.

    Therefore, legalizing cannabis will have little impact on the amount of cannabis impaired drivers on our roads.

    The same thing applies to people being under the influence of cannabis on the job.

    Responsible employees do not go to work impaired, period. Irresponsible employees already share our workplaces and they will come to work impaired regardless of their drug of choice’s legality.

  7. @hammyhamhamster5993 on August 13, 2025 at 2:56 pm

    Rational, reasonable people would logically prefer to pay tax on a legal product which they can conveniently acquire to use instantly at a store, rather than be criminalized, persecuted and prosecuted over the possession and use of relatively benign cannabis…

  8. @Porkbelly000 on August 13, 2025 at 3:03 pm

    Republicans ruin everything.

  9. @Aratron757 on August 13, 2025 at 3:04 pm

    Its totally legal in N.Y. and it’s never been a problem. As a matter of fact, because of this, cannabis is widely available and exremely cheap. What you’d pay $250 for here you can get at a dispensary in N.Y. for $50.
    All these needless laws do is make things more difficult, for no reason.

  10. @hammyhamhamster5993 on August 13, 2025 at 3:06 pm

    Cannabis should be absolutely just as legal and easy to obtain anywhere as alcohol currently is. No exceptions. It’s so easy: As legal and easy to obtain/use as alcohol currently is. Why hold relatively benign, often healing cannabis to any sort of irrational, stricter double standard than perfectly legal alcohol?

  11. @hammyhamhamster5993 on August 13, 2025 at 3:07 pm

    States "rights" has become just a clever excuse, disguise and blanket authority being used for a very small minority of irrational prohibitionists to be able to criminalize everything that they personally don’t morally approve of. Same with abortion, websites and even books that they don’t morally approve of, and they have the nerve to call it states "rights". The only "right" states rights provide is the right of a very small minority to criminalize anything they don’t morally approve of in their individual home states. It needs to end now! It’s like having 50 different countries with different laws instead of a "United" States. States rights=Criminalization of the citizens by a very small lunatic fringe minority of irrational prohibitionists whom have self righteously appointed themselves as self deputized morality police over everyone else.

  12. @hammyhamhamster5993 on August 13, 2025 at 3:07 pm

    "Americans favor making cannabis legal for adults, according to the findings of a CNN/ORC International survey released late Monday. The percentage is the highest ever reported by the survey, which has been tracking public opinion on the issue since 1973, and marks a 12 percentage point jump in support since the last time pollsters posed the question in 2012" -CNN Poll

  13. @hammyhamhamster5993 on August 13, 2025 at 3:08 pm

    Politicians who continue to demonize Cannabis, Corrupt Law Enforcement Officials who prefer to ruin peoples lives over Cannabis possession rather than solve real crimes who fund their departments toys and salaries with monies acquired through cannabis home raids, seizures and forfeitures, and so-called "Addiction Specialists" who make their income off of the judicial misfortunes of our citizens who choose cannabis, – Your actions go against The Will of The People and Your Days In Office Are Numbered! Find new careers before you don’t have one. The People have spoken! Get on-board with Cannabis Legalization Nationwide, or be left behind and find new careers. Your choice.

  14. @JayNichols-h7i on August 13, 2025 at 3:09 pm

    The bill to sell weed literally passed through the legislature. They should just completely ignore that clown governor and just start finally selling recreational weed.

  15. @BillyBob-cb4qw on August 13, 2025 at 3:12 pm

    With my anxiety I drive way better under the influence of cannabis.

  16. @hammyhamhamster5993 on August 13, 2025 at 3:15 pm

    Legalize federally now. What’s legal to possess and consume in over half of the populated areas of The United States should not make you a criminal in states still being governed by woefully ignorant prohibitionist politicians. Cannabis consumers in all states deserve and demand equal rights and protections under our laws that are currently afforded to the drinkers of far more dangerous and deadly, yet perfectly legal, widely accepted, endlessly advertised and even glorified as an All-American pastime, alcohol. Plain and simple! Legalize Nationwide Federally Now!

  17. @hammyhamhamster5993 on August 13, 2025 at 3:21 pm

    "The report discovered that Cannabis is 114 times less deadly than alcohol. Researchers were able to determine this by comparing the lethal doses with the amount of typical use. Through this approach, Cannabis had the lowest mortality risk to users out of all the drugs they studied. In fact—because the numbers were crossed with typical daily use—Cannabis is the only drug that tested as "low risk." -Complex

  18. @hammyhamhamster5993 on August 13, 2025 at 3:29 pm

    Fear of Cannabis Legalization Nationwide is unfounded. Not based on any science or fact whatsoever. So please prohibitionists, we beg you to give your scare tactics, "Conspiracy Theories" and "Doomsday Scenarios" over the inevitable Legalization of Cannabis Nationwide a rest. Nobody is buying them anymore these days. Okay?

    Furthermore, if all prohibitionists get when they look into that nice, big and shiny crystal ball of theirs, while wondering about the future of cannabis legalization, is horror, doom, and despair, well then I suggest they return that thing as quickly as possible and reclaim the money they shelled out for it, since it’s obviously defective.

    The prohibition of cannabis has not decreased the supply nor the demand for cannabis at all. Not one single iota, and it never will. Just a huge and complete waste of our tax dollars to continue criminalizing citizens for choosing a natural, non-toxic, relatively benign plant proven to be much safer than alcohol.

    If prohibitionists are going to take it upon themselves to worry about "saving us all" from ourselves, then they need to start with the drug that causes more death and destruction than every other drug in the world COMBINED, which is alcohol!

    Why do prohibitionists feel the continued need to vilify and demonize cannabis when they could more wisely focus their efforts on a real, proven killer, alcohol, which again causes more destruction, violence, and death than all other drugs, COMBINED?

    Prohibitionists really should get their priorities straight and/or practice a little live and let live. They’ll live longer, happier, and healthier, with a lot less stress if they refrain from being bent on trying to control others through Draconian Cannabis Laws.

  19. @LSD1448 on August 13, 2025 at 3:30 pm

    It’s insane that VA legalizes possession but you can’t buy it from a regulated market and pay taxes for it. All it does is make the black market flourish. I like Youngkin, but him vetoing the bill for a regulated market is one of the most stupid choices he has made.

  20. @JayNichols-h7i on August 13, 2025 at 3:31 pm

    Younkin is a nazi fascist, he would rather have cartels and the black market make all the money but not his own state. What a worthless loser of a leader.

  21. @DonnyDonowitzzz on August 13, 2025 at 3:36 pm

    How stupid is Virginia to legalize it but not sell it? WTF?

  22. @hammyhamhamster5993 on August 13, 2025 at 3:36 pm

    "Americans favor making cannabis legal for adults, according to the findings of a CNN/ORC International survey released late Monday. The percentage is the highest ever reported by the survey, which has been tracking public opinion on the issue since 1973, and marks a 12 percentage point jump in support since the last time pollsters posed the question in 2012" -CNN Poll

  23. @j.dunlop8295 on August 13, 2025 at 3:37 pm

    Old politicians, have old ways? 💰🙊🙉🙈

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