SB120 Irresponsible plan for dangerous high-potency marijuana legalization
The American Psychiatric AssociationHigh Potency Marijuana describes Withrwal Syndrome. APA Recognizes and Describes Marijuana Withdrawal Syndrome
SB120 is an all-out push to legalize marijuana for recreational use in Pennsylvania, setting up the government to profit from more addictive use of industrialized high-potency drugs. This bill would create a predatory industry that prioritizes profit over public health. It would hinder local authority and grow government by charging the Liquor Control Board to oversee advertising and licensing of state-sanctioned marijuana stores.
What’s at stake if SB 120 passes:
Communities lose control: Local residents would have a short window to meet petition qualifications and have a judge stop a pot shop from opening in your neighborhood —and the ruling can’t be appealed.
Government expansion: The state Liquor Control Board takes charge of licensing, ads, and sales.
High-potency marijuana legalized: No limit on the THC potency of marijuana concentrates—linked to addiction and mental health crises.
Home-grow allowed: Up to four plants per household, with vague security rules.
This bill follows the same failed path as other states. Where commercialized marijuana is legal, we’ve seen:
More children hospitalized after THC exposure
A rise in youth psychosis, addiction, and depression
Increased drug-impaired traffic fatalities
Growing strain on law enforcement and workplaces
A black market that continues to thrive
“Our son was bright and full of potential. After years of high-potency THC use, he drowned during a mental health episode. Had he never used marijuana, we believe he’d be alive today.” — Jeff & Patti Weaver, Allegheny County
State officials should not be incentivized by addiction. For every $1 in marijuana tax revenue, states like Colorado face over $4.50 in social and economic costs. That’s why major organizations oppose recreational marijuana legalization—including the American Academy of Pediatrics, PA Fraternal Order of Police, PA Chiefs of Police Association, and Christian Medical and Dental Associations.
TAKE ACTION: Contact your State Senator and Representative and ask them to oppose SB120 – an irresponsible plan for dangerous high-potency marijuana legalization
Why does PA congress need a budget to legal Marijuana.... MONEY
Big Marijuana is very well funded by billionaires like George Soros and they have been working hard to move into Pennsylvania.
They couldn’t pass it with htreatening our budget. I think I would call this Blackmail in the PA Senate.
This won’t be a compromise it will be a disater.
Unless there is an outpouring of opposition from voters, Pennsylvania will become the latest state to put more drugged drivers on our roads and more drugs into the hands of our children. Inagine a stoned truck driver passing you on route 78.
Don’t we have enough accidents on the highway involving trucks?
The chemicals being used to grow today’s marijuana are also causing an environmental disaster. Marijuana growers are poisoning the soil and water supplies, and are killing wildlife.
It not the same POT your fathers and mothers grew up with. It’s extremly dangerous.
I compare it to taking an apsrin in the 1970’s to taking morphine in 2020’s.
It’s all about money, just like when they legalized Fireworks, they didn’t care how many fires and medical problems fireworks caused, they wanted to fix the budget by taxinging it.
By the the way, the same is happening with Skill Machines.
Are we just going to let the budget legalize this dangours substatnce.