A Pennsylvania Democrats step up the push to legalize marijuana, the state’s top Republican senator says he doesn’t think the state will enact the policy change this year—and he believes that it should not move ahead at all without further changes at the federal level.
“I don’t see it coming before this session ends,” Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman (R) said when asked about the prospects of cannabis legalization at a press conference on Monday.
“People tend to forget that recreational marijuana, for better or worse, is a scheduled narcotic at the federal level,” he said. “And I think we would all be well served to have some more national direction on how to deal with this issue.”
Pittman criticized leaders of the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives for passing a bill last year that would have legalized marijuana and put sales in state-controlled dispensaries, saying it displays a “lack of seriousness on this issue” on the part of the other chamber’s majority party.
“They sent us a recreational marijuana legalization proposal that would have marijuana in the state stores. Now, come on,” the top GOP senator said. “I mean, we’re not going to put weed in state stores, number one,
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