Jim Kenney tells WHYY's "Radio Times" Pennsylvania has the "perfect system to set up the legal recreational use" of marijuana through its controlled state stores.
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He adds it would allow the state to "capture all the income that is going to the underground."
He says the revenue could be directed at public education.
Pennsylvania has enacted a medical marijuana law but the drug isn't yet available.
Officials expect the drug to be available to patients by May 2018.
Listen: Kenney addresses recreational marijuana starting at 29:31
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