Providing for adult use of cannabis; regulating the personal use and possession of cannabis; establishing the Keystone Cannabis Authority; providing for powers and duties of the Keystone Cannabis Authority; establishing the Community Opportunity Fund; providing for social and economic equity, for regulation of cannabis business establishments, for enforcement and immunities, for laboratory testing, for advertising, marketing, packaging and labeling and for preparation, destruction and regulation of cannabis and cannabis-infused edible and nonedible products; imposing a sales tax and excise tax on cannabis and cannabis-infused edible and nonedible products; establishing the Cannabis Regulation Fund; providing for cannabis clean slate and for miscellaneous provisions; imposing penalties; consolidating provisions relating to the medical use of cannabis; transferring certain powers and duties of the Department of Health to the Keystone Cannabis Authority; and making repeals.
What happened: Pennsylvania introduced comprehensive adult-use cannabis legalization legislation that would create the Keystone Cannabis Authority, establish licensing, taxation, testing, and social equity frameworks, and consolidate medical cannabis oversight, currently referred to the House Health Committee.
Why it matters: If enacted, the bill would create an entirely new legal cannabis market in Pennsylvania, opening licensing opportunities and imposing regulatory requirements for retailers, cultivators, and labs while expanding access for patients.
Affects: retailers and cultivators and labs and patients
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