Title 4.1. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control
Chapter 6. General Provisions
§ 4.1-629. Local ordinances or resolutions regulating marijuana or marijuana products.
A. No county, city, or town shall, except as provided in § 4.1-630, adopt any ordinance or resolution that regulates or prohibits the cultivation, processing, possession, sale, distribution, handling, transportation, consumption, use, advertising, or dispensing of marijuana or marijuana products in the Commonwealth.
B. 1. Notwithstanding subsection A, the governing body of any county, city, or town may adopt an ordinance that prohibits the acts described in § 4.1-1108 or the acts described in § 4.1-1109 in its local public parks, playgrounds, public streets, or any sidewalk adjoining any public street. A penalty may be prescribed by the locality for a violation of such ordinance.
2. Notwithstanding subsection A, the governing body of any county, city, or town may adopt an ordinance that decreases the minimum distance requirements as promulgated in Board regulations (i) between retail marijuana stores and microbusinesses or (ii) between a retail marijuana store or microbusiness and any hospital; public, private, or parochial school or institution of higher education; or child day program.
C. Except as provided in this section, nothing in this subtitle shall be construed to supersede or limit the authority of a locality to adopt and enforce local ordinances to regulate businesses licensed pursuant to this subtitle, including local zoning and land use requirements and business license requirements.
D. Except as provided in this section, all local acts, including charter provisions and ordinances of counties, cities, and towns, inconsistent with any of the provisions of this subtitle, are repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.
2026, Sp. Sess. I, c. 1.
