Pot Profits for Pennsylvanians (P3)

The P3 Mission

Our mission is to advocate for state legislation that decentralizes the marijuana industry and maximizes ownership of AUC licenses for Pennsylvania family farms and small businesses, especially those owned by Black and Brown entrepreneurs, and to stop outside corporations from controlling the AUC market in Pennsylvania.

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The legalization and regulation of Adult Use Cannabis (AUC) in Pennsylvania affords a unique opportunity to lift up Pennsylvania’s rural and urban communities through local ownership of this new industry. By passing legislation to limit the power of multi-state corporations, we envision an AUC industry composed of business owners who live and work in the same communities they serve.

Special provisions must be made to ensure that ownership opportunities are accessible to small farmers and Black and Brown entrepreneurs, and that cannabis tax revenues be used to rebuild communities that have been devastated by the failed war on drugs.

Pot Profits for Pennsylvanians, Not Outside Corporations

Our Objectives

1. Advocate for PA AUC Legislation that decentralizes the industry

Hire an expert on cannabis legislation to work with a group of allied PA legislators to develop legislation with the objective of supporting inclusion and a sustainable income for as many locally owned small businesses and farms as possible, rather than be a vehicle for amassing great wealth for a few multi-state corporations.
Legislation must directly benefit small PA farmers and Black and Brown entrepreneurs by making AUC licenses and contracts accessible to them, and limit the power of the oligarchies who are consolidating the cannabis industry in this country.
Legislation should exonerate and assist all nonviolent marijuana offenders with resources to be whole.

2. Launch a public campaign

Hire a marketing professional or firm to develop educational programs and social media campaigns to build a massive ground swell of support among PA citizens for this David and Goliath battle on behalf of our family farms and small businesses.
Activate citizens to lobby their state legislators to support a P4 endorsed bill for AUC that decentralizes the industry and empowers its citizens.

3. Create a PA Small Business Cannabis Collective

Unite urban and rural businesses who are seeking licenses and provide them with technical assistance, help with license applications and capitalization.
Create a training program to support the PA Small Business Cannabis Collective members that will provided assistance in the areas of license applications, horticulture, processing and distribution training, accessing capital, addressing legal issues, branding, etc.
Develop restorative agriculture education programs for cultivating marijuana.
Adopt standards for responsible business and farming practices that Collective members pledge to abide by in order to create a model industry that cares for the well-being of our communities, the land and our natural environment.

4. Build a PA Cannabis investment fund

Background

Following legalization in neighboring New Jersey and New York, the Pennsylvania legislature is likely to pass AUC within a year’s time. The out-of-state corporations who now own most all the medical marijuana licenses in our state expect to dominate the market for AUC as well, and have the money and political influence to do so. Pennsylvanians must unite now to stop the growing cannabis multi-state oligarchy and ensure that this once in a lifetime opportunity of a lucrative new industry serves our state’s farmers and small businesses, instead of outside corporations and the interests of the super wealthy.

There is a lot at stake. Marijuana sales in Pennsylvania from January 2020 to January 2021 were a roaring $910 million. It is projected that once AUC is passed, marijuana sales in our state will be at least two billion dollars a year. That could mean billions of dollars a year flowing from the pockets of Pennsylvanians into the coffers of large out-of-state corporations. Instead, that money could stay in Pennsylvania to support our family farms and rural communities and rebuild urban communities harmed by the drug war. We must stand up and fight for Pennsylvanians!