Pennsylvania lawmakers are signaling that a bill to legalize marijuana could advance imminently—with few remaining differences between House and Senate proposals, an added sense of urgency as more neighboring state markets come online and bipartisan agreement about the need to avoid a state-run regulatory model.
At a press conference on Monday, Reps. Aaron Kaufer (R) and Emily Kinkead (D), as well as Sen. Sharif Street (D), gave a status update on the push for adult-use legalization in the Keystone State.
Kaufer suggested that there was enough alignment between each chamber’s reform measures to move them “today,” or before a budget deadline this week. “Our goal is to get this done as soon as possible,” he said, adding that legalization is “part of the governor’s budget proposal.”
“I think everybody standing up here, we’ve been working diligently to try to get together something that can pass today in both the House and Senate,” the GOP representative said.
Street, along with Sen. Dan Laughlin (R), introduced a legalization bill last year, while Kaufer and Kinkead announced their intent to file a cannabis measure earlier this month. While the text isn’t publicly available, Kaufer said there’s “not too much of a difference” between
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