Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — The marijuana industry in Pennsylvania now anticipates recreational sales to be legalized in 2026. Medical marijuana dispensaries in the Keystone State have preemptively begun to remodel facilities and upgrade their systems to accommodate the expanding market.
A professional in the marijuana industry told Harrisburg100 that if legalized, medical sales and recreational sales will be separate transactions with separate menu options and pricing. Recreational products will reportedly be taxed, unlike medical.
Pro-marijuana interests spent at least $1.6 million lobbying the Pennsylvania legislature in 2024 as lawmakers weighed a legalization scheme that could see major profits for existing dispensaries and growers.
40 companies operate 186 medical dispensaries in Pennsylvania, and collectively sold nearly $7 billion worth of product from 2020 through the end of 2024. Expansion into the recreational market is expected to continue growing those companies’ returns.
Proponents say the Pennsylvania legislature is “substantially closer” to reaching a deal on marijuana legalization.
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So let’s encourage more people to consume drugs and reap the consequences as in Colorado where the morbidity costs (as opposed to the mortality costs) are outweighing all the supposed benefits and revenues. Then we get to clean up the mess many years down the road as we are doing with Big Tobacco (same companies now involved with Big Marijuana)….
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I’ll drink to that.
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It’s not enough drivers are distracted, now they’ll be under the influence, but it’s OK, it’s legal.
Doctors won’t be held accountable for an operation gone wrong, ’cause it’s legal.
(or any other way that would cause the innocent to have to suffer the consequenses
of others actions just for self pleasure – if there is a med-problem, let it be under a Dr’s supervision)
While people are homeless &/or hungry (not of their own choosing). These people don’t care except for $$’s,
(ie. “40 companies operate 186 medical dispensaries in Pennsylvania, and collectively sold nearly $7 billion
worth of product from 2020 through the end of 2024″)
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