Virginia Democrats are moving forward with their efforts to set up a retail market for the sale of recreational marijuana, something Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) has implied he won’t sign into law.

Legislation to set up a regulated retail market for marijuana passed a first General Assembly hurdle on the same kind of party line vote on the essentially identical bill that Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed last year.

A Virginia Senate committee advanced legislation that would create a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, but seems it may meet the same fate it did last year if it reaches the desk of Gov. Glenn Youngkin.