Legalizing & Regulating Adult-Use Cannabis

Pennsylvania is long overdue to responsibly legalize and regulate adult-use cannabis. Right now, our state is missing out on economic opportunity while neighboring states move forward and set clear rules that protect consumers, generate revenue, and support local communities.

Bryan Allen supports a legal cannabis system that is tightly regulated, focused on public safety, and designed to ensure the benefits flow back to the communities that have been most impacted.

Bryan’s priorities include:

• Legalizing adult-use cannabis with strong public health and safety standards, including clear regulation of sales, packaging, and distribution.

• Prioritizing local control and accountability, ensuring communities have a meaningful role in how cannabis businesses operate in their areas.

• Creating a fair, competitive market that supports small businesses and local entrepreneurs, not just large corporate operators.

• Protecting public safety on roads and in workplaces, with clear standards for impaired driving enforcement and workplace protections.

• Ensuring tax revenue is reinvested directly into communities, with a strong focus on public education, property tax relief, public safety, and local infrastructure.

• Supporting expungement of low-level, non-violent cannabis offenses, so people are not held back by past convictions in an industry that becomes legal.

• Building a system that benefits taxpayers and neighborhoods, rather than letting revenue disappear into the general fund without clear community impact.

Bryan believes legalization should be done the right way: with guardrails that protect communities, and a funding structure that ensures revenue is “fenced in” and returned directly to the places that need it most—especially local schools and homeowners facing rising property tax pressure.