This past weeked, 22 attendees of the Philly Smoke Seesh were arrested and the organizers of the event were charged with conspiracy after the police raided the venue where the event was taking place. Days after the arrests, the Mayor of Philadelphia makes a bold statement about the state of cannabis in Pennsylvania.
Per Philly Mag
This morning, Mayor Jim Kenney stopped just short of criticizing the bust when he called it “overkill” and said that the “real solution to this is legalizing [marijuana] in the state of Pennsylvania as they did in Colorado,” according to Philly.com.
At Poe’s Northeast Philly warehouse party on Saturday, Police arrested 19 men and three women, confiscated 50 pounds of marijuana, about $50,000 in cash, several handguns and about 100 pounds of cannabis edibles. About 200 people were detained.
Kenney actually worked with Poe activist Chris Goldstein to draft the legislature that decriminalized cannabis in Philly.