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Workers in Pennsylvania can’t be fired for having a doctor’s approval for medical marijuana — but once they actually use it, it’s a whole different story. Vague legal safeguards for medical marijuana users in Pennsylvania are forcing patients to choose…

Pennsylvania offers a one-time pardon application for select lower-level marijuana convictions

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and Lt. Gov. John Fetterman announced a joint effort Thursday to pardon many people convicted with non-violent marijuana offenses. The large-scale project, called the Pennsylvania Marijuana Pardon Project, will allow people with select convictions to submit an application online for…

Pennsylvania Governor Signs Cannabis Banking and Insurance Protections into Law

It is official. On July 11, 2022, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed House Bill 331 into law, ostensibly making the Commonwealth safer for financial institutions and insurers that want to do business with the state’s medical marijuana industry. In relevant part, the new…

Bill removes risk of wrongful DUI arrest for medical cannabis patients

Legislation that would protect Pennsylvania’s more than 700,000 medical marijuana patients from wrongful driving under the influence convictions advanced out of the Senate Transportation Committee on Tuesday by a 13-0 vote. The bill would treat medical cannabis like any other…

Pennsylvania’s controversial marijuana vape recall is overturned by appeals court judge

A Commonwealth Court judge on Wednesday allowed Pennsylvania medical marijuana companies to resume selling vapes that were taken off the shelves in February in a controversial recall. “We are thrilled about this decision,” said Judith D. Cassel, an attorney for…

Companies blanket Pa. with ads about how to get a medical marijuana card, but doctors are silenced

When Pennsylvania lawmakers legalized medical cannabis in 2016, they struck an unusual deal: Physicians can approve patients for the program but they are banned from advertising that power. Lawmakers feared advertising would encourage thousands of patients to flood the same…

Fetterman’s not-so-secret weapon: Weed legalization

The issue isn’t top of mind for most voters, but the Democratic frontrunner is betting that it could help draw people to the polls. LANCASTER, Pa. — Few Senate candidates sell campaign T-shirts emblazoned with marijuana leaves. But head over…

No, you can’t buy marijuana in New Jersey and bring it back to Pennsylvania. Here’s why.

So you’ve heard the news? Recreational marijuana is now legal to buy in New Jersey as an adult. On the first day of sales, more than 12,000 customers bought nearly $1.9 million of recreational cannabis. But what if you don’t…

Bill proposal would allow medical marijuana edibles in Pennsylvania dispensaries

Pennsylvania medical cannabis patients currently have access to tinctures, pills, oils, topicals, and dry leaf to vaporize. A new bill will soon be introduced by state Sen. Dan Laughlin, R-Erie, to possibly expand those options and allow patients to purchase…

Pa.’s top marijuana regulator decries stubbornly high retail prices for medical cannabis

The average wholesale price for a gram of medical cannabis leaf in Pennsylvania has fallen 36% since the beginning of 2020. But the average retail price that patients pay is down only 14% over the same period, a state official…

Pennsylvania’s sudden move to recall marijuana vapes raised questions. Like were these products harmful all along?

For years the Pennsylvania Department of Health allowed the state’s medical marijuana companies to sell hundreds of medicines that the agency now considers potentially unsafe. Something changed in November when regulators started a process that led last month to a…

Pennsylvania Department of Health Expands Financial Assistance for Medical Marijuana Patients

The Department of Health expanded financial assistance available in the Medical Marijuana Assistance Program (MMAP) and announced the ninth clinical registrant of the Medical Marijuana Research Program. “The department is pleased to be able to expand assistance to Medical Marijuana…

Legalizing weed in Pennsylvania faces complicated demands

Pennsylvania lawmakers researching a bill to legalize recreational marijuana received a barrage of information Tuesday during a spirited, two-hour hearing in West Philadelphia. They heard testimony espousing their instituting automatic and retroactive mass expungement of cannabis convictions and keeping the…

Hundreds of medical marijuana vape products not approved for inhalation recalled from Pa. dispensaries

Hundreds of vape cartridges sold at medical marijuana dispensaries in Pennsylvania have been recalled because they contain ingredients that weren’t approved for inhalation, state health officials said. The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Friday released a list of more than…

Republican-backed push to legalize weed in Pennsylvania gets underway with hearing

The push to legalize recreational marijuana for adults in Pennsylvania follows legalization moves in neighboring New Jersey and New York. A Republican-controlled Pennsylvania Senate committee on Monday held what was billed as the first of a series of hearings on…