The top Pennsylvania House lawmaker says legalizing marijuana is one way to create a “very important” revenue source for the state, and it’s an achievable reform if only legislators could find “the will to do it.”
In an interview with City & State that was published on Monday, House Speaker Joanna McClinton (D) was asked about the need to bolster revenue and what options might be on the table heading into the 2026 session.
“It’s very important. When we talk about the needs for schools, for transit, for roads and bridges, we have to have a way to pay for everything—not just today, but in three years, in six years,” she said. “The only way we can do that is by creating new revenue.”
“Some of the ways the governor requested that we create the revenue was through legalizing marijuana, raising the minimum wage, regulating skill games. So we have ways to do it,” the speaker said. “We’ve sent some of those to the Senate, but we haven’t been able to get any of those bills to the governor’s desk.”
To that point, the House passed a marijuana legalization bill earlier this year, with a novel proposal to have sales take
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