A Pennsylvania House committee held a second informational hearing on marijuana legalization this week as momentum builds in the state to enact the reform. After Ohio voters’ decision last month to legalize recreational cannabis, both Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) and U.S. Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) have said it’s time for Pennsylvania to make the change, too.
“It’s just so simple and so easy—just give people what they want,” Fetterman said late last month. “Make it safe, make it pure and make jobs.”
At the hearing of the House Health Subcommittee on Health Care on Wednesday, state lawmakers heard testimony from Gillian Schauer, executive director of the Cannabis Regulators Association (CANNRA), a nonpartisan group of officials involved in state-level cannabis regulation. Members queried Schauer on various elements of marijuana oversight, including promoting social equity and business opportunities, laboratory testing and public versus private operation of a state-legal cannabis industry.
“I know that after our last meeting, I walked away convinced that if our goal is to correct the harms from the criminalization of cannabis, while promoting health and safety, how we regulate legal cannabis will play a huge role in the outcome,” Rep. Dan Frankel (D), the full Health Committee
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