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Marijuana became legal in Virginia on July 1. People over the age of 21 can possess up to an ounce of the drug.

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Although recreational marijuana is now legal in Connecticut, stores won’t open until next year – so some are going over state lines to buy it.

Ethan Sandhu was shot and killed on June 1 in north St. Louis and his mother says it’s possible he was meeting someone to buy weed from.

As the use, possession and cultivation of marijuana became legal in Virginia Thursday, experts weighed in on how that could impact Virginia’s prison population.

Under Virginia’s marijuana legalization laws, home cultivation of four plants is permitted, if the plants are labeled, out of public view, and away from children.

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Virginia’s marijuana laws ease up on July 1. The state is the first in the South to legalize possession of marijuana.

With more and more states legalizing recreational marijuana, the question remains on whether or not it will be addressed on the federal level.