It's illegal to sell marijuana in Virginia, but stores are doing it anyway. Here's why they're not shut down.

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It's illegal to sell marijuana in Virginia, but stores are doing it anyway. Here's why they're not shut down.

See our FAQs: Virginia’s marijuana laws explained.See also: Here’s what readers said about legalizing retail sales of cannabis. In 2023, the Louisa County Sheriff’s Office received multiple complaints that someone was running what amounted to an open-air drug market out of a storage unit in the Zion Crossroads community. The sheriff’s office did exactly what you’d expect a sheriff’s office to do under such circumstances: Deputies raided the plac…