Cannabis in Pennsylvania

[11] The resolution specified a number of reasons for supporting legalization, including the racist and unscientific reasons for its original prohibition, the lack of fitting the criteria to be placed in Schedule I of the Controlled Substance Act, and Auditor General Eugene DePasquale's support for legalization to save criminal justice costs and earn revenue via taxed sales.

[14] Under the policy, approximately 149,000 licenses were suspended for non-driving drug offenses from 2011 to 2016, according to Equal Justice Under Law, a nonprofit civil rights organization.

[13] In December 2018, during a Q&A session with constituents on Twitter, Governor Wolf tweeted: "I think it is time for Pennsylvania to take a serious and honest look at legalizing recreational marijuana.

[20][21] At a press conference on September 25, 2019, Wolf and Fetterman announced that of the more than 10,000 people that attended the listening tour, 68% were in favor of recreational legalization and there was near unanimous support for decriminalization.

Legalizing marijuana would create tens of thousands of jobs that require no subsidy, no kind of guidance other than to rewrite the law and allow this business to flourish in Pennsylvania.

"[31] Fetterman added that "40 percent of our population will live within a 30-minute drive or less of legal marijuana", and that Pennsylvania should reap the economic benefits of these consumers, "not New Jersey".

In Allentown and part of Bethlehem, police officials have said they will enforce state law only per the directive of Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin.