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When the prohibition on alcohol was repealed back in the 1930s, the General Assembly created a new liquor control plan and set up a new agency to regulate it: The Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority. Now Governor Ralph Northam says ABC should also regulate marijuana when it s legalized.
Senator Lionel Spruill is a Democrat from Chesapeake who disagrees with the governor.
Credit U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration I think this is too much for ABC to handle. We need to have a regulatory commission, another commission to start not ABC. This is really important for us. We need to start from ground zero, Spruill says. Find another agency that has the time and the know-how to put all the staff together to make this thing work for us. This is not the job for ABC.