Just ahead of a Pennsylvania committee meeting on cannabis reform this week, House lawmakers have introduced a bill to legalize marijuana that the lead sponsor says is “grounded in safety and social equity.”
Rep. Amen Brown (D) is sponsoring the legislation, which is an identical companion to a bipartisan Senate cannabis legalization measure that was filed last year.
The House legislation was introduced on Tuesday, with five cosponsors signed on, two days before members of the Health Subcommittee on Health Care are scheduled to hold the latest in a series of meetings on legalizing marijuana. At last month’s hearing, members focused on criminal justice implications of prohibition and the potential benefits of reform.
On Thursday, the panel will look at social equity issues related to legalization. Witnesses include representatives of the Minority Cannabis Business Association (MCBA), Parabola Center, the Diasporic Alliance for Cannabis Opportunities, a Boston cannabis management official, a retired judge and others.
Brown, the legalization bill sponsor, said in a cosponsorship memo to colleagues last week that his new legislation “addresses safety by setting the minimum marijuana consumption age at 21 years old and provides the appropriate deterrence to keep marijuana out of the hands of anyone under
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