Boones Mill will be first in Virginia to hold a public hearing on something all localities will eventually have to deal with: Cannabis sales.

The town of Boones Mill in Franklin County is about to do something that apparently no other locality in Virginia has done: It’s going to hold a public hearing on cannabis.

Specifically, about what townspeople might want to see in a town ordinance related to legal sales of cannabis, which could come to Virginia as early as Nov. 1.

The hearing, set for Tuesday at 6 p.m., appears to be the first such locality hearing in the state, according to Michelle Gowdy of the Virginia Municipal League…

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