{"id":8258,"date":"2018-05-09T01:19:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T01:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/?p=17948"},"modified":"2018-05-09T01:19:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T01:19:32","slug":"pa-congressional-candidates-in-9th-district-diverge-on-legalizing-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/pa-congressional-candidates-in-9th-district-diverge-on-legalizing-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"PA: Congressional Candidates In 9th District Diverge On Legalizing 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\/pa-congressional-candidates-in-9th-district-diverge-on-legalizing-marijuana\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Primary elections often feature a field of candidates with policy positions that are barely distinguishable as they court voters of the same party.<\/p>\n<p>But there is some differentiation among candidates in Pennsylvania&#8217;s ninth district on some issues, including marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>The topic came up Monday night during a dual debate hosted by Lebanon Broadcasting Company at Harrisburg Area Community College&#8217;s campus in downtown Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Quick and Gary Wegman support the federal decriminalization of marijuana, and think legalizing recreational use nationwide would get bipartisan support.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not shocking for Democrats like Quick, a former UPS driver from Palmyra, and Wegman, a dentist who&#8217;s been playing up his continued involvement in his family&#8217;s Berks County farm.<\/p>\n<p>But the third Democratic contender Denny Wolff, who was state agriculture secretary under Governor Ed Rendell, is ok with medical use only, calling himself &#8220;old school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wolff says he wants give it more time in states where the drug is already legal, and watch what happens there.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans Schuylkill County Commissioner George Halcovage and Scott Uehlinger, a veteran of the Navy who&#8217;s also retired from the C-I-A, says they only support the legalization of medical marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Meuser, former Revenue Secretary under Governor Tom Corbett, says he was skeptical about the medical effectiveness of the drug, until seeing supportive research.<\/p>\n<p>Meusuer also says while he doesn&#8217;t think states should be turning to marijuana to balance their budgets money, he does support decriminalizing small amounts for personal use.<\/p>\n<p>The ninth district includes all of Lebanon, Schuylkill, Carbon and Columbia counties and parts of Berks, Luzerne, Montour and Northumberland counties.<\/p>\n<p>Technically, there&#8217;s no incumbent and the race is wide open &#8211; in pat, because the district is entirely new since Pennsylvania&#8217;s congressional map was overturned and replaced by the state Supreme court in a landmark decision earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>But much of the new ninth district&#8217;s territory used to be considered the 11th &#8211; which is currently represented by Republican Congressman Lou Barletta, who launched a Senate campaign before the courts had ruled.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/420-news\/international-cannabis-news\/pa-congressional-candidates-in-9th-district-diverge-on-legalizing-marijuana\/\">PA: Congressional Candidates In 9th District Diverge On Legalizing Marijuana<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primary elections often feature a field of candidates with policy positions that are barely distinguishable as they court voters of&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/420-news\/international-cannabis-news\/pa-congressional-candidates-in-9th-district-diverge-on-legalizing-marijuana\/\" class=\"read-more\">[Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/420-news\/international-cannabis-news\/pa-congressional-candidates-in-9th-district-diverge-on-legalizing-marijuana\/\">PA: Congressional Candidates In 9th District Diverge On Legalizing Marijuana<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1616,9,1,3],"tags":[4184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8258"}],"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=8258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}