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A budget crisis could make Pennsylvania the next state to legalize adult-use marijuana.
Pennsylvania lawmakers are staring down a gap as big as $3.7 billion, and they have few options to fill it other than revenue from regulated and taxed cannabis.
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Gov. Josh Shapiro, a likely contender for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, has pledged that he will once again use his annual budget address on Feb. 4 to call on state lawmakers to legalize adult use in Pennsylvania.
The marijuana industry, in turn, organized a fundraiser for the governor in early January, and some of the state’s medical cannabis operators took the opportunity to inform Shapiro that up to 60% of customers shopping at adult-use stores in Maryland, New Jersey and Ohio
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