There’s more friction and finger-pointing in the Pennsylvania legislature over the push to legalize marijuana for adult use, with a GOP senator who’s sponsoring a reform bill insisting that the House must make the first move and a Democratic representative pushing back on that suggestion.
Sen. Dan Laughlin (R), who serves as chair of the Senate Law and Justice Committee, said on Tuesday that the House “needs to pass the language in my bill and send it to my committee” after which point he “can negotiate with the Senate and the governor.”
The Democratic-controlled House, however, has already advanced a legalization proposal this session that called for a state-run sales model. That measure was quickly quashed in Laughlin’s Senate committee, however, with the GOP lawmaker and others insisting that a more traditional approach of licensing privates businesses would have a better shot.
Pressed by Marijuana Moment on Tuesday about why he wouldn’t simply seek to advance his legislation through his own committee first to deliver it to the House, Laughlin said the opposite chamber needs to pass the litmus test of whether “they can pass my language,” using a companion version from Rep. Amen Brown (D) as the vehicle.
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