Vote Yes on this bill if you want Virginia to launch a regulated adult-use marijuana market with strict testing and seed-to-sale tracking, equity licensing and loans, labor-peace protections, delivery options, clear penalties, and tax revenues dedicated to equity reinvestment, pre-K, treatment, and public health while allowing limited local time-and-distance controls.

Organizations that support this bill may include cannabis industry associations, small business and farming groups, civil rights and criminal-justice reform organizations, labor unions favoring labor-peace requirements, and community reinvestment and social-equity advocates.

Vote No on this bill if you want to avoid expanding retail marijuana access, keep stronger local authority to restrict or block stores, prevent potential public-health and youth-access risks, and oppose new state mandates such as labor-peace agreements and a larger regulatory bureaucracy.

Organizations that oppose this bill may include law-enforcement and prosecutors’ associations, anti-drug prevention coalitions, some parent-teacher and school groups, certain public health organizations, and local government associations concerned about preemption and retail siting.