Two Virginia bills that would have legalized marijuana in the state were killed by a legislative committee on Wednesday. The House of Delegates Courts of Justice Committee also shot down several ...

Welcome to pot politics in Virginia. Each year, Virginia police make some 20,000 arrests for marijuana possession—an annual total that is the twelfth highest in the nation. Those arrested are charged ...

Republicans on a Senate committee Monday killed a bill that would decriminalize small amounts of marijuana by changing the punishment from a criminal misdemeanor to a civil penalty. The Virginia ACLU ...

In the 10-year period ending last year, there were 133,256 arrests in Virginia for possession of marijuana, 84 percent of them first-time offenses. Nevertheless, relatively few people go to jail in ...

Virginia lawmakers gave final approval Saturday to a bill that will legalize marijuana for adult recreational use, but not until 2024, when retail sales of the drug would also begin. With a compromise ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP)- A Virginia state Senate committee has voted to kill a bill that would decriminalize small amounts of marijuana. Nine Republicans on the Senate Courts of Justice Committee voted ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Going into the 2020 legislative session, advocates say Democratic leaders had an ambitious marijuana reform agenda. By crossover day, several decriminalization bills passed their ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Mike Thomas earned a ...

RICHMOND — A group of state lawmakers will decide in a closed meeting Wednesday whether the state should study marijuana decriminalization this year as requested by a key legislative leader. The ...

Marijuana legalization proponents have successfully placed a measure on the November ballot, giving Ohio voters a key opportunity to vote up the green-up. The state’s laws only go as far as to ...

PARKERSBURG – A representative of an organization lobbying for reform of marijuana laws in West Virginia said this week he’d like to see Parkersburg be the first city in the state to decriminalize ...