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A column in last week’s Chamber Connection, published in the Wednesday editions of the Sun-Gazette, by Williamsport-Lycoming Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Jason Fink raises a number of excellent questions about the resurfaced push to legalize recreational marijauna in Pennsylvania.
Will employers be able to find staff that ensures safe workplaces — particularly when machinery and heavy equipment are used? As one of the last states in the Northeastern U.S. to not legalize recreational marijuana, would it make more sense for Pennsylvania leaders to recruit industries and employers looking for that drug-free workforce.
As we have acknowledged in the past, our editorial board does not have answers — at least, not yet.
What we do know is that these questions, and many others, deserve rigorous, transparent debate with the final decision on marijuana being driven but which policies make the most sense for our state.
As we have noted in the past, this issue too often is too entangled with budgetary deadlines and and a desire to find revenue so that Pennsylvania’s government can avoid a reckoning for its big-spending ways. If anything, the welding of recreational marijuana to budgetary deadlines provokes our skepticism that its proponents are confident they can present a truly convincing case on its own merits.
At the very least, we reiterate that this entanglement is an obstacle to the state asking these questions, answering these questions in the right way and, most importantly, reaching the right decision.
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