Should marijuana be legalized in Pennsylvania?

Marijuana has been proven to be beneficial. It also is not embraced as a medicine in Pennsylvania and many are completely against it.

When Pennsylvania will legalize marijuana is uncertain. When the marijuana industry will grow is also uncertain. It will take a year for sales to start because everything must be planned and organized. It will also take a year for the government to figure out how to regulate, tax, license businesses and what the law should specifically be. The marijuana industry does this to destigmatize this stigmatized substance.

What Governor Tom Wolf sees as something that will generate revenue is seen as something that will only add to the drug epidemic by republicans. With legalizing marijuana, Wolf only wants to repair damages that have been made by the COVID-19 pandemic. If Wolf wants marijuana legal, he will need help from the legislature. If Wolf has it his way, marijuana will possibly be legalized through the legislature. This will be unique and might allow Pennsylvania to open recreational stores sooner. A bill could fall on Wolf’s desk at any moment for him to sign and legalize marijuana in Pennsylvania.

“There is a good third or more of the country that is against marijuana. There are also so many medical benefits to marijuana,” Dr. Matt Reid, assistant professor, sociology and…