One question dogs Pa. cannabis debate: Should big businesses have a leg up?

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HARRISBURG — It wasn’t simply opposition to recreational marijuana that led a GOP-led state Senate panel to roundly reject a Democratic pitch to legalize the drug earlier this month. Lawmakers balked at selling cannabis at state-run stores similar to Pennsylvania’s liquor shops and shutting out existing medical dispensaries.

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