A top Pennsylvania House Democratic committee chairman says it’s “high time” to legalize marijuana and lay the groundwork for businesses in the state to export cannabis to other markets if federal law changes—and he sees a “real opportunity” to do so, even as his Republican counterpart is downplaying that possibility this session.
In interviews on PoliticsPA’s Voices of Reason podcast that were posted on Monday, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jordan Harris (D) and Minority Chairman Seth Grove (R) gave competing perspectives on the prospects of legalizing cannabis, as the governor has again called for as part of his budget request.
Harris said he does see a pathway for legalization. But short of that, he said “there’s a real opportunity to at least decriminalize it in the commonwealth.”
“I also believe that soon we’ll see the federal government doing some things around rescheduling of cannabis,” the chairman said, and he hopes that kind of reform could eventually allow farmers to export marijuana to other states.
“Pennsylvania, if we want to get in front of things, it’s high time that we legalize adult-use cannabis, tax it and create the industry here,” Harris said.
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