: Pennsylvania state senators launch cannabis adult-use legislation
Pennsylvania state Senators Dan Laughlin, Republican, and Sharif Street, Democrat, said Thursday they introduced Senate Bill 846, a bipartisan measure to legalize adult-use cannabis in the Keystone state. “With neighboring states New Jersey and New York implementing adult use, we have a duty to Pennsylvania taxpayers to legalize adult-use marijuana to avoid losing out on hundreds of millions of dollars of new tax revenue and thousands of new jobs,” Laughlin said in a statement. SB 846 would allow people 21 and over to buy cannabis. Law enforcement would have the ability to adjudicate driving under the influence and the “authority to pursue and eradicate any illicit market.” The law would ban marketing directed toward children and establish requirements in the work place on marijuana use. The measure would also grant licenses to social and economic equity applicants. It would expunge non-violent marijuana convictions for medical marijuana patients and expunge all non-violent marijuana convictions. The Pure U.S. Cannabis ETF MSOS was down 1% on Thursday.
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