That Most Pennsylvanians want recreational marijuana legalized according to a recent CBS News poll that shows 66% of registered voters support cannabis policy reform, while 34% oppose it.
representative Amen Brown (D) who used to announced his Intending to introduce reform legislation, which he will work on with fellow GOP Sen. Mike Regan (R) said that legalizing recreational marijuana was “just the right thing.”
“Education, after-school programs, affordable housing, things like that and investing that money, creating jobs and supporting communities that have been hardest hit by the ban,” Brown said continued.
But despite the support marijuana enjoys among Pennsylvania voters, Cannabis laws in the state of Keystone remain strict.
A recently report uncovered from the Marijuana Policy Project that Pennsylvania is one of 19 states where possession of marijuana is punishable by a possible prison sentence and a criminal record.
2021 12,439 adults and 1,057 youth were arrested for simple cannabis possession, Pennsylvania State Police data showed. Although the numbers represent a 30% drop between 2020 and 2021, they remain high.
Lawmakers are pushing for a change in policy
While the recent push for policy change on the state level came out Sen. Chris Gebhartwho said in a recent co-sponsorship memo that the measure he intends to introduce would establish a new licensing regime under which “independent” cannabis growers/processors operate in the Keystone State pharmacies are allowed to open as vertically integrated companies, the efforts of Lt. gov. PA’s John Fetterman for a change in federal policy.
Fetterman (D), who is running for a Senate seat, lately pushed President Biden to remove marijuana from a Schedule I drug and work to decriminalize it. Shortly thereafter, the two politicians crossed paths in Pittsburgh and discussed possible changes to the status of cannabis under the Controlled Substances Act before his speech in a union hall…
