How Virginia is becoming more like California and New York: All have unlicensed cannabis stores

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Many years ago, the old “Grin and Bear It” newspaper cartoon showed a group of scientists, with lab coats and clipboards, gathered by the side of the road at a traffic light. A passerby had asked them what they were doing. One of the scientists replied: “We’re trying to determine the shortest period of time possible — the time between when the light changes and the driver behind honks.”