{"id":1336,"date":"2013-02-15T19:09:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T19:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=20645"},"modified":"2013-02-15T19:09:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T19:09:10","slug":"pennsylvania-senator-wants-state-to-regulate-and-sell-legal-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/pennsylvania-senator-wants-state-to-regulate-and-sell-legal-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Senator Wants State to Regulate and Sell Legal Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/pennsylvania-senator-wants-state-to-regulate-and-sell-legal-marijuana\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/senator-leach.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"senator leach\" title=\"senator leach\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-20650\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/pennsylvania-senator-wants-state-to-regulate-and-sell-legal-marijuana\/attachment\/senator-leach\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20650\" title=\"senator leach\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/senator-leach-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Inaction by the federal government has been prompting states to alter their marijuana laws for over 15 years.\u00a0 Until November, state government officials and activists have mostly been discussing medical marijuana and decriminalization laws.\u00a0 With residents voting to legalize recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington, the discussion has widened its scope.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.senatorleach.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania State State Senator Daylin Leach<\/a> is seeking to have the state government regulate marijuana in the same way as alcohol.\u00a0 This would increase tax revenues and place a system of control that officials currently do not have in regards to regulating marijuana.\u00a0 As the idea of respecting state rights, individual freedoms, reducing incarcerations rates for non violent acts, and saving tax payer dollars grows in popularity, these proposals no longer seem so far fetched.<\/p>\n<p>His plan to drastically update marijuana laws has certainly gained momentum.\u00a0 The voter initiated plans in Colorado and Washington seems to have prompted state lawmakers across the country to propose similar measures.\u00a0 Rhode Island lawmakers are also discussing a similar bill.\u00a0 Although a recent bill has stalled among lawmakers in Hawaii earlier this week, the momentum appears to be gaining.\u00a0 In West Virginia, a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coalvalleynews.com\/view\/full_story\/21489073\/article-Poll--53-percent-of-West-Virginians-support-medical-marijuana?instance=popular\" target=\"_blank\">Marijuana Policy Project poll<\/a> show that 53% of West Virginia residents support legalizing medical marijuana.\u00a0 An even greater number (63%) decided feel that marijuana was a safer choice than oxycontin for debilitating pain.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Leach feels legalization is only a matter of time because the majority of younger Americans &#8220;have very little interest in continuing prohibition.\u201d\u00a0 He also said the legislation was important because \u201cThere are other intoxicants that are far worse that we do not treat the same way. We do not accuse people of criminal offenses for consuming.\u201d\u00a0 Senator Leach is hoping to save Pennsylvania over $500 million per year with a combination of law enforcement savings and tax revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/senator-leach.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"senator leach\" title=\"senator leach\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-20650\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/pennsylvania-senator-wants-state-to-regulate-and-sell-legal-marijuana\/attachment\/senator-leach\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20650\" title=\"senator leach\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/senator-leach-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Inaction by the federal government has been prompting states to alter their marijuana laws for over 15 years.\u00a0 Until November, state government officials and activists have mostly been discussing medical marijuana and decriminalization laws.\u00a0 With residents voting to legalize recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington, the discussion has widened its scope.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.senatorleach.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania State State Senator Daylin Leach<\/a> is seeking to have the state government regulate marijuana in the same way as alcohol.\u00a0 This would increase tax revenues and place a system of control that officials currently do not have in regards to regulating marijuana.\u00a0 As the idea of respecting state rights, individual freedoms, reducing incarcerations rates for non violent acts, and saving tax payer dollars grows in popularity, these proposals no longer seem so far fetched.<\/p>\n<p>His plan to drastically update marijuana laws has certainly gained momentum.\u00a0 The voter initiated plans in Colorado and Washington seems to have prompted state lawmakers across the country to propose similar measures.\u00a0 Rhode Island lawmakers are also discussing a similar bill.\u00a0 Although a recent bill has stalled among lawmakers in Hawaii earlier this week, the momentum appears to be gaining.\u00a0 In West Virginia, a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coalvalleynews.com\/view\/full_story\/21489073\/article-Poll--53-percent-of-West-Virginians-support-medical-marijuana?instance=popular\" target=\"_blank\">Marijuana Policy Project poll<\/a> show that 53% of West Virginia residents support legalizing medical marijuana.\u00a0 An even greater number (63%) decided feel that marijuana was a safer choice than oxycontin for debilitating pain.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Leach feels legalization is only a matter of time because the majority of younger Americans &#8220;have very little interest in continuing prohibition.\u201d\u00a0 He also said the legislation was important because \u201cThere are other intoxicants that are far worse that we do not treat the same way. We do not accuse people of criminal offenses for consuming.\u201d\u00a0 Senator Leach is hoping to save Pennsylvania over $500 million per year with a combination of law enforcement savings and tax revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[166,1335,184,77,56,9,51,1336,70,1337,1,3,173,61,1338],"tags":[2744,3905,2762,2655,2636,2631,3906,5,3907,2751,6,3908],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}