Philadelphia decriminalized cannabis in 2014 and recently passed an addition to the city charter endorsing a statewide referendum on legalization.ĭamian Jorden runs Phynally, a Philly-based job search engine that lists opportunities at companies that don’t pre-screen for cannabis. Pennsylvania legalized medical marijuana in 2016, and there were over 340,000 licensed medical marijuana users in the state as of last May. “Pre-employment screening prevented millions of people from applying for everyday jobs, and in this hiring crisis, you really can’t do any more than this to help.” “This is a really sensible step for the business sector of the region,” Chris Goldstein, a regional organizer with NORML, told Billy Penn.
