The governor of Pennsylvania says the administration and lawmakers will “come back and continue to fight” for marijuana legalization and other policy priorities that were omitted from budget legislation he signed into law last week. However, key lawmakers have suggested that the state’s top official hasn’t been very engaged in efforts to enact the reform to date and that there is splintering among Democrats over the specific details of a legal cannabis market.
Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) was asked about the fact that cannabis legalization wasn’t included in the legislation he signed into law this month, and while he said he wouldn’t comment on private conversations with legislators about the measure’s shortcomings, he hasn’t given up the push for reform.
“As I said before, everybody had to compromise and we didn’t always get what we wanted, but we all are going to come back and continue to fight for the things that we believe in,” he said at the press conference last Thursday. “The things that I laid out in my budget I still believe in and we’re going to continue to fight for in the future.”
Shapiro had included cannabis legalization as part of his budget proposal sent to
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