Earlier this week we threw some cold water on many legalization prospects for this year, but now some updates are coming out of Pennsylvania. We’d be happy to be wrong in this case.
Pennsylvania House Speaker, Joanna McClinton, spoke at an event yesterday where she talked about legal marijuana’s ability to raise revenue for the state.
Ultimately, she said “It’s going to be a heavy lift,” due to needing Republican support, but “most House Democrats support it.”
The Senate in PA is controlled by the Republicans, although some of them are coming around the idea of legal marijuana. Representative Abby Major, thinks it best for the Republicans to take the issue for themselves due to the Democrat’s inaction. “I’m a Republican, always have been. I believe in small government, low taxes, a free market and personal liberty. For these reasons, I support the legalization of adult use of cannabis,” she wrote in TribLive.
“Legalization is the conservative commonsense approach.”
Major’s opinion is, no pun intended, not the majority for Republicans in Pennsylvania. So we’ll see if it makes a dent with her co-workers. At the very least, Governor Shapiro making legalization a part of the budget this year really puts the dialogue front and center in the state.
Read the original story at Marijuana Moment.
