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ICYMI: 2021 General Assembly Mid-Session Update The General Assembly mid-session update: Hear Lynchburg Senators Steve Newman and Mark Peake and Delegates Wendell Walker and Matt Fariss discuss marijuana legalization, abolishing the death penalty, getting kids back in school, and other decisions that affect all of us.

The bill’s continued advancement this year seems to be a breakthrough on an issue lawmakers have previously been reluctant to tackle. Virginia has one of the least restrictive and policed campaign finance systems in the country, with lawmakers only barred from using campaign funds for personal use once they close out their accounts.

Virginia might change how absentee votes get counted File Photo/Don Del Rosso Early voters line up at the Fauquier County registrar’s office to cast their ballots in September. Absentee ballots get processed in one total, separate from the precincts in which voters live. I’ll tell you this, if we’re shooting rockets off into space at Wallops Island, we can figure out what precinct a voter is from. — Sen. Mark Peake (R-Lynchburg) • Adjourns: Saturday, Feb. 27 Despite lingering, and unfounded, fraud suspicions on the right, a recently issued state report called the 20...

Michael Pope reports. As Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw said on the Senate floor, it's high time Virginia does something about marijuana. He made that crack after senators started a debate about the legalization of marijuana at 4:20 in the afternoon. They approved a bill introduced by Senator Adam Ebbin, a Democrat from Alexandria that creates an independent agency to regulate the new industry. It would also create social equity licenses to make sure that communities harmed by the war on drugs are able to benefit from the coming windfall profits. Credit U.S. Drug Enforcement Administratio...

Virginia General Assembly passes bills to legalize marijuana, abolish death penalty, and more Bills that passed through the House, Senate head to the other chamber for review Tags:  Similar bills passed both the House and Senate after some debate. “Legalizing marijuana will not end the illegal activity in sales,” said Del. James Leftwich, Jr. Chesapeake (R-78). “This bill provides social equity and helps improve those communities who have been most impacted and harmed by the prohibition against cannabis,” said Del. Don Scott Jr., Portsmouth (D-80). The bill eliminates criminal penalt...