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12/02/2024 07:29 PM
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House of Representatives
Session of 2025 - 2026 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: December 2, 2024 01:42 PM
From: Representative Rick Krajewski and Rep. Dan Frankel
To: All House members
Subject: Legalizing and Regulating Adult-Use Cannabis
 
As a state that continues to criminalize recreational cannabis, Pennsylvania is now an outlier — 24 states have legalized the practice, including 5 of the 6 states that border Pennsylvania.

But legal or not, Pennsylvanians are consuming marijuana, whether by visiting our bordering states, buying unregulated hemp loophole products at gas stations and vape shops, or purchasing in the illicit market.

Prohibition is a failed policy with significant consequences to our Commonwealth. It has ruined lives over minor cannabis offenses, disproportionately impacting Black and Brown communities. Consumption of unregulated and dangerous products has increased. And we are losing millions of public revenue that our communities need.  

The need to decriminalize and regulate a cannabis market is clear, but we can see from the missteps of many states before us that a poorly structured cannabis program can fail to convert the illicit market, leave consumers without health protections and enrich huge, out-of-state corporations rather than lifting up our own communities.

For that reason, we plan to introduce adult-use cannabis legislation that prioritizes: 
  • Expungement and restorative justice for those affected by draconian drug policies;
  • Reinvestment of funds into communities disproportionately harmed by the war on drugs;
  • Public health protections, such as limiting excessive THC levels, prohibiting predatory marketing and packaging, preventing accidental ingestions by children, and other recommendations developed by our nation’s leading scientists; and
  • Providing sustainable cannabis businesses opportunities for local and diverse operators.  
Please join us in cosponsoring this important piece of legislation.




Memo Updated: December 2, 2024 01:43 PM