Pennsylvania is poised to legalize marijuana as soon as next year if Democrats can win a handful of key state legislative races in the November elections, a top lawmaker says.
House Speaker Joanna McClinton (D) said at a Black Cannabis Week event on Friday that the state still has “a ways to go” to catch up with its neighbors that have already “moved in the right direction” by enacting marijuana legalization.
While McClinton’s chamber passed a bill to legalize cannabis last year, it has stalled in the Senate, where Republican have a narrow majority.
However, the “exciting thing” is that “Pennsylvania voters may go a different direction” by electing Democrats in November and helping them flip the three seats the party needs to take a majority in the Senate, the speaker said.
“What it looks like for us to have change is we have to change who is making the laws in that chamber,” she said, urging voters to “do the best thing for people to have business opportunities, health improvement, community empowerment, restorative justice—things that are long overdue.”
House Appropriations Committee Chair Jordan Harris (D) also spoke alongside McClinton on the Black Cannabis Week panel, noting that “attitudes are
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