"Cannabis is bad for Virginia." 3/28/24

"The proposed legalization of retail marijuana in the Commonwealth endangers Virginians’ health
and safety." 3/28/24

“I don’t plan on signing that bill. I had somebody ask me the other day, ‘Are you going to sign the legislation?’ and I’ve been talking about this for 60 days and I said, ‘Anybody who thinks I’m going to sign that legislation must be smoking something.'” 3/18/24

“And, bluntly, you want to talk about putting a cannabis shop on every corner?” Youngkin said. “I don’t quite get it.” 3/7/24

“I just don’t have a lot of interest in pressing forward with marijuana legislation.” 1/10/24

Youngkin wrongly claims "every single state" has earned disappointing cannabis revenue 7/9/21

“It just has fundamentally underperformed in every state where they have used this misguided justification for pressing forward with marijuana.” 5/14/21

Youngkin described legalization as “another problem that’s going to be dumped at my feet” if he’s elected. 4/9/21

“If there was a group of children that were sitting here and I was talking to them about marijuana I would tell them don’t use it,” Youngkin said at a campaign event in April. “I’ve never met anybody who habitually used marijuana and was successful and I would tell all them the same thing.” 4/9/21

“The economic package that has been sold will wildly disappoint. Every single state that has adopted legalizing marijuana has been disappointed by the economic model.” 3/15/21

“Do not count on the revenue from legalized marijuana to amount to anything. It hasn’t worked in Colorado, it hasn’t worked in California, it hasn’t worked in Oregon. This has been a false advertisement.” 2/28/21

Joseph Guthrie, commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, said “Governor Youngkin has stated that he is not interested in any further moves towards legalization of adult recreational use marijuana, so I wouldn't expect that during his adminsitration”. (7/7/23)

Youngkin's campaign stated that they would not seek to repeal Virginia's recent legalization of marijuana, but falsely stated that other states which have legalized have embellished their tax revenue collections from marijuana sales. (7/3/21)