As 2025 kicks off and state legislative sessions get rolling, marijuana legalization advocates are eyeing a handful of jurisdictions as key battlegrounds where they see the prospects of enacting reform this year as most likely.

Gov. Josh Shapiro said Tuesday that he recently met with cannabis dispensary owners from Maryland, Ohio, New York and New Jersey. He wanted to ask them how many of their customers at stores near the Pennsylvania border were crossing state lines to buy their products.

No one in the Pennsylvania Capitol is prepared to say if this is the year the state will legalize marijuana. But that hasn’t stopped supporters from beginning to lay out their visions, with some lawmakers pitching selling the drug in state-owned stores and others proposing letting independent sellers seek state licenses.

Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (CSE: TRUL) (OTCQX: TCNNF) ("Trulieve" or "the Company"), a leading and top-performing medical marijuana company in the U.S., today announced the relocation of a Trulieve-affiliated medical marijuana dispensary to Lancaster,

Right now, the adult use of marijuana for fun is legal in 24 US states along with Washington DC, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands. And yet it's stupidly still a Federal crime.

As the Pennsylvania General Assembly prepares to get back in session for the year, both senators and House representatives have lofty goals. But there’s one issue expected to be the talk of Harrisburg this year: cannabis.

Pennsylvania has several neighbors with legal adult-use sales, including Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Ohio. Its other neighbor, West Virginia, is a medical-only state. This limits the ability of Pennsylvania to get cross-border traffic, Viridian wrote.

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Residents in the city of Milford will not be buying recreational marijuana, despite Delaware becoming the 22nd state to legalize it in April 2023. The Milford City Council passed an ordinance prohibiting recreational marijuana sales in a meeting last week by a 6-2 margin.