A Pennsylvania House committee is convening an informational meeting to hear from experts about adult-use marijuana legalization as legislators chart a path for the reform, which the panel’s chairman said may involve consideration of a state-run cannabis sales model.
While the House Health Subcommittee on Health Care won’t take up any specific legislation on Wednesday, members will have the chance to listen to testimony from professors, advocates and addiction specialists about the health considerations of moving forward with legalization in the Keystone State.
The subcommittee is chaired by Rep. Dan Frankel (D), who has previously sponsored cannabis legalization legislation and circulated a cosponsorship memo earlier this year previewing plans to file another reform bill this session.
Watch the committee hold the marijuana legalization information meeting live in the video below:
Frankel told Marijuana Moment in a phone interview last week that the measure he’s planning to introduce early next year will likely be “quite different” from the version he previously sponsored, and it will be partly informed by the meetings members hold in his panel. The lawmaker expects there will be two or three meetings to discuss the reform before a bill is brought to the full
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