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Gloucester supervisors lift vape-shop suspensions under testing and sales restrictions after heated hearing
Summary
After a lengthy public hearing and competing testimony from the sheriff and business owners, the Gloucester County Board of Supervisors voted 5–2 on April 7 to lift the business-license suspensions for four local vape shops on the condition that products identified by the sheriff be tested by an independent lab and removed from sale if positive for Schedule I/II substances.
The Gloucester County Board of Supervisors voted 5–2 on April 7 to lift suspensions of the business licenses for four local vape shops — DeVault, Rhino Tobacco and Vape (two locations) and Super Tobacco — contingent on independent laboratory testing and a ban on products that test positive for Schedule I or II substances.
Sheriff Darryl Warren told the board investigators executed simultaneous search warrants March 3 and, after lab analysis, "we now have lab results from all 5 locations from the March 3 operation that shows that they were continuing to sell products containing schedule 1 substances," and urged revocation. Warren asserted the seized items included products labeled with chemicals that the Virginia Drug Control Act classifies as Schedule I and described packaging with dosing guides and "not for human…
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