A legislative proposal that would make recreational marijuana legal for everyone 21 and older has been filed in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
Representative Amen Brown (D) filed House Bill 2210 yesterday with a bipartisan group of five cosponsors. The measure was filed just two days before the Health Subcommittee on Health Care is set to hold a hearing to discuss marijuana legalization.
Under the proposed law, those 21+ would be allowed to possess up to 30 grams of marijuana, which they could purchase from a licensed marijuana retail outlet. The law would allow medical marijuana patients to grow up to five plants, but it would not allow home cultivation for recreational users.
“New Jersey and New York have implemented adult use”, says Brown. “It is our duty to taxpayers to seize the initiative and legalize marijuana concurrently with bordering states,. Failure to do so risks permanently ceding hundreds of millions of dollars of new tax revenue as well as thousands of jobs at a time when taxpayers can least afford it.”
HB 2210 would place an 8% tax on marijuana sales, and a 5% tax on marijuana producers. Revenue would be split between cities that allow marijuana stores, and the state’s general fund.
HB 2210 is a companion bill to bipartisan legislation filed in July in the state’s Senate. For the full text of the bill, click here.
