They aren't going to let anyone grow their own until it's recreationally legal

That's not really how it works in Harrisburg. Literally thousands of bills are written every session, and only a fraction of them ever come up for a vote. Just because a Senator or Representative authors a bill, that's not a guarantee it'll be considered at all.

That being said, you're starting on the right path to do what we (the public) need to do to get our government to work for us, instead of Pennsylvania's long-standing requirement that we work for Harrisburg.

Contact your state representative and state senator. Be agreeable yet persistent. If they tell you they support the bill, ask if they're working to advance it in committee and toward a vote on the floor.

Legislators don't obsess over how they love writing legislation as a means to get re-elected, they focus on doing the bare minimum for as many people as possible to make them content enough to vote for them again. Make sure they understand when you're talking to them that "pro-marijuana" stance isn't enough, for you you're also requiring active participation.

Get your friends to do the same. One person can start the ball rolling but an army of activists are going to see better results quicker.

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Bruh…hasn’t even been sworn in as senator and it’s completely seperate 🫡

I swear these people are like fucking robots; incapable of critical thought and just bleat out whatever their deluded brains tell them to unfiltered.

I contacted my local rep and he said that sb1024 is dead. It would need to be reintroduced, and to contact rep Sharif Street. It’s frustrating that we don’t have the same rights as many other states do with home grow laws enacted.

Honestly, your best bet is to move if you really want to be on the legal end of things to one of the following states;

Alaska

California

Colorado

Maine

Massachusetts

Michigan

Nevada

Oregon

Vermont

Virginia **NEW

Washington

If moving isn’t an option; just grow a couple plants dude. Just don’t be stupid about it, don’t grow like 20, grow like 3-5. Have a good ventilation system and you’ll be fine.

>bleat out whatever their deluded brains tell them

I think part of the issue is that it's not their brains coming up with the ideas. They allow pundits, like Tucker Carlson, to literally inject stupid into them, and they run with it.

And at that point, the big companies that run the legalized market will lobby to keep home grow illegal and limit who can legally sell.

They take the first chance to try and make everything political with lacking the awareness that if it wasn’t for Tom Wolfe MMJ patients would all be smoking Street carts rn 😩

Oh, I know that those pundits are a major problem, but the worst of these individuals do their "own research" and are QPuppets.

> Tom Wolf

You mean the literal Nazi who barred my door during lockdown and fined me for walking to the end of my driveway to get my mail?! #unmaskPA

/s... Just in case

That's fair

That’s how state laws work. What’s okay in one state may not be in another. On the flip side, there are likely laws in other states that you dislike but don’t have to worry about because you don’t live there.

Add Maryland to the list starting this summer.

New York is much closer and you can have up to 6 plants.

And CT

And NJ

Already there lol. Big companies run the med program and are already lobbying against homegrow.

They just started a new session today (swearing in happened this morning) so hopefully it can be reintroduced.. with all the craziness in the senate and house right now though I’m not sure how fast it’d come up (or if at all with the with the folks in the majority).

Fetterman is a federal senator, not a state senator. He can work on federal legality, but doesn’t have a vote on state law.

(In contrast, Mastriano, who ran for governor is still a state senator. He has a vote on state-level bills. I’m guessing he is anti-homegrow.)

Not any time soon Cheech.

I moved half an hour away to New York state. before that I had a PA medical card. It was expensive. $300 every 2 weeks. and even that's just like a couple 8th's of flower. One time I had a vape cart that was just an empty box with a foam filler in it. Gee, thx. Can't even open the package to see that you got what you paid $60 for a half gram vape cart.

NY state surprised the heck out of me. We were over there on April 1st when it passed. "Smoke anywhere you smoke tobacco" The tobacco laws got really strict in NY, but then they added that, and Yeah, that's done right, IMO.

Sweet! The republicans have screwed up progress again!

Republicans getting in the way of what their constituents want (and eventually taking credit when it passes down the road)?! Shocking! I can't believe it!

/sarcasm

Don't understand the difference between the federal government and state, huh?

All bills from last session need to be reintroduced if their sponsors intend to try again. Alternatively, other similar bills may get introduced by other legislators. I was hoping we'd get fewer, better bills this session, but I see a few cosponsor memos already. It's still early in the session, and I suppose it depends who the majority leader ends up being. See https://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOcs/Legis/CSM/DisplayMemos.cfm?Chamber=H&SPick=20230&filter=A&filterChamber=B&Subject=marijuana and https://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOcs/Legis/CSM/DisplayMemos.cfm?Chamber=H&SPick=20230&filter=A&filterChamber=B&Subject=cannabis for a list (there will be some overlap, one searches for 'marijuana', the other 'cannabis').

"That's not really how it works in Harrisburg. "

This was the best, thank you for the smile...

NOTHING works in Harrisburg

When the right money flows it will be passed just like that...until then

I'll do me, you do you :)