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RICHMOND â The General Assembly voted to end criminal penalties for simple possession of marijuana beginning this July, backing Gov. Ralph Northamâs suggestion to accelerate the legalization timeline.
The legislature barely approved bills in February to legalize marijuana and set up a system for retail sales in 2024, with Democrats hoping Northam would send back changes to address various concerns. The Democrat-controlled General Assembly approved several other amendments to the massive marijuana legalization legislation during a one-day session Wednesday to take up the governorâs recommended changes to bills.
âThereâs a straightforward injustice to punishing someone for something we agreed should be legal,â said House Majority Leader Charniele Herring, D-Alexandria.
The Times-Dispatch obtains records and emails in the ongoing scandal involving the Virginia Parole Board.
Democrats who control the General Assembly rejected a plan for a bipartisan special committee to investigate wrongdoing at the Virginia Parole Board, opting on Wednesday to fund a limited investigation into controversy involving one case.
The limited investigation authorizes Attorney General Mark Herring, in consultation with Gov. Ralph Northam and other Democratic leaders, to choose a law firm to investigate how and why allegations of wrongdoing at the parole board were not included in one state watchdog report last year. The cost could be up to $250,000.
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The Virginia General Assembly is reconvening Wednesday to take up Gov. Ralph Northamâs recommended changes to legislation, with much of the attention being paid to him urging lawmakers to speed up legalizing simple possession of marijuana.
The General Assembly passed legislation to make it lawful for an adult to possess up to an ounce of marijuana in 2024, when commercial sales begin, but the chances of the legislature passing Northamâs amendment to accelerate the timeline look good.
House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn, D-Fairfax, and Del. Lamont Bagby, D-Henrico, the chairman of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus, have both endorsed what Northam wants to do. Del. Sam Rasoul, D-Roanoke, said while he wished Northam had made some other changes, particularly investing more tax revenue from sales to a fund aimed at communities historically over-policed for marijuana-related crimes, he said he believes thereâs a consensus. Rasoul was one of several Democrats who did not