“The state has been slow to grant licenses to legal marijuana shops”
Imagine if they had repealed Prohibition but made it very difficult to buy state taxed liquor. Well, that was Appalachia and guess what we did.
Virginia made it legal to grow and possess Weed but not sell it. Oddly, nothing really happened but the state is not getting the tax money. I think everyone here is growing it.
Virginia is getting their tax money through sales tax from anything the marijuana growers buy as well as the property taxes for the homes they live in, all paid for with marijuana growing money.