As Pennsylvania lawmakers prepare for another push to legalize adult-use marijuana this session with the governor’s support, the new Republican state attorney general is raising concerns about the “potential harm that could be caused criminally” by enacting the reform.
Asked to share his thoughts on the legalization push from certain legislators, Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday (R) first said that “99 percent, if not more” of cannabis possession cases in the state are handled by district attorneys rather than his state office. He then pivoted to talk about his concerns with the idea of legalizing marijuana.
“From a policy perspective, what I can say is—and this is something that I said all throughout the campaign—regardless of what policy issue we’re talking about… you have to have voices from from from all parts of the community on this, and I would be remiss as a prosecutor and now as a chief law enforcement officer for Pennsylvania if I wasn’t a voice outlining the potential harm that could be caused criminally as a result of that,” he told NBC10.
“It’s clearly up to the citizens to take that information in to digest it [and] the legislators to take it in and digest
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