Keystone Cannabis Coalition

For Best Chance of Legalizing Cannabis in Pa: Pull the Lever Straight Democrat Posted by KCC on Oct 30, 2018 in Blog Maybe you are a Democrat. Maybe you are a Republican. Maybe you are a Libertarian or Green. Then again, maybe youre an anarchist or simply apathetic or apolitical. Maybe you couldnt care less about politics. I want to talk to all of... you and tell you the truth about how we stand the best chance of legalizing cannabis in Pennsylvania. In short, we recommend voting straight Democrat this year. Now, I know that for some of you who read this, you would never base your vote on just one issue alone. Its good to consider a broad spectrum of economic, political, cultural and societal issues and come to a reasoned conclusion. Keystone Cannabis Coalition is not fighting to end property taxes, roll back environmental regulations, privatize the prisons, put prayer back in the schools, go full force with fracking, ban abortion, dismantle the public schools and put everyone in private charter, religious or corporate schools, break up the unions or any of those issues. If we were, wed be telling people to vote Republican. To people who value those issues over and above cannabis legalization then they will vote Republican. KCC is a cannabis legalization organization so we have the responsibility not to tell you the best way to get tax reform or crack down on the immigrants but to tell you the best way to get cannabis legalization and that is by voting for Democrats. Thats a fair question. Lets see what the Democrats of Pennsylvania have done for us. Who remembers the fight we waged together to win decrim in Philadelphia? After a year-long campaign of civil disobedience we got Democratic city councilman Jim Kenney to introduce a decrim ordinance, it was passed by a Democratic council and signed by a Democratic mayor. Now that councilman is Mayor and he supports the full legalization of cannabis. Democratic District Attorney Larry Krasner is not even prosecuting cannabis offenses anymore. When we passed decrim in ...Read More