Northam has now released his own proposal for the future of marijuana in the state, just days after delegate Steve E. Heretick introduced his bill.

Governor Northam sees a Virginia—just three years from now—where recreational marijuana is legal and adult Virginians can buy from state-operated stores or from private owned retail stores or even grow it at home, so long as it’s out of sight from the public and can’t be accessed by children.

Past marijuana convictions would be expunged, and a large portion of marijuana revenue would go toward early childhood education for the disadvantaged in the state. When seeking to enter the marketplace with retail stores, those from groups most affected by marijuana criminalization would be eligible for friendly loans and business support.

Not every proposal is likely to be as popular, as Northam suggests an excise tax of 21 percent, over twice that of delegate Heretick’s suggested 9.7 percent. Northam’s version of the bill would also limit home growers to two mature plants and two saplings, whereas Heretick’s bill calls for three mature plants and unlimited saplings.

The details of this bill and others will be debated in the general assembly to arrive at a final legalization bill to be presented to Northam to sign, but whatever the final bill looks like, it really is looking like Virginians will be able to legally blaze one at home soon.