The Lebanon Valley Expo Center & Fairgrounds hosted the 2025 Summer Cannsfest, billed as “the premier Cannabis Festival of Summer 2025,” last weekend, June 7 and 8.

The event, put on by Lehigh Valley-based M2 Productions, featured Pennsylvania and national vendors of legal hemp and cannabis products, food and drink, art, and music.

The fairgrounds’ open air pavilions provided shelter to festival goers throughout the rainy weekend.

The fairgrounds’ outdoor pavilions provided shelter to vendors and attendees from weekend showers. (Will Trostel)

Vendors from Pennsylvania and surrounding states featured all sorts of products associated with cannabis culture.

Jay Petsko and Jonny Von of Von Dirt travelled to Cannafest from New Jersey. (Will Trostel)

Some products were almost too beautiful to use.

Jeff Feldman of Connecticut’s Blazin J’s Smoke Shop shows off a dazzling display of hand-blown glass pipes. (Will Trostel)

Hungry festivalgoers looking for offbeat snacks to munch on were in luck.

Rachel and Stephen Demonaco of Lancaster County’s Daisy’s Creations offered unusual flavors of kettle corn, including blue raspberry. (Will Trostel)
Jenny Oliver of Lancaster County candy maker One Sweet World. (Will Trostel)
Unicorn Poop, a freeze-dried confection offered by Lancaster County’s One Sweet World. (Will Trostel)
Tamica Hierro and Kylie Downs of Lebanon’s Snitz Creek Brewery. (Will Trostel)

Also on hand were representatives of the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania, the New Pennsylvania Project, and longtime marijuana legalization organization NORML.

Jennae Tropea and Peter Schwarze represented the Lebanon and Berks County chapters of the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania. (Will Trostel)
Heather Shearer of the New Pennsylvania Project was present to register new voters. (Will Trostel)
Jeff Riedy and Ryan Burke of the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (Will Trostel)

While many other states have legalized or greatly reduced marijuana penalties, possession remains a misdemeanor punishable in Pennsylvania. Under Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana law, possession of limited amounts by individuals with certain medical conditions is legal, if their condition is certified by an approved practitioner. Only licensed dispensaries can sell medical marijuana. A board-certified physician was on hand to assist qualified individuals in obtaining and renewing state-sanctioned medical marijuana cards.

Recreational marijuana legalization is being considered by Pennsylvania’s General Assembly.

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

“Industrial hemp,” such as these cannabis plants containing less than 0.3% of Delta-9 THC, the psychoactive chemical in marijuana, has been legal in Pennsylvania since 2016. (Will Trostel)

Since 2016, “industrial hemp” products, defined as any part of the cannabis sativa plant with less than 0.3% concentration of delta-9 THC, have also been legal in Pennsylvania. Vendors at Cannafest told LebTown that their plant-based products qualified as industrial hemp.

Products containing less than 0.3% delta-9 THC are classified as “industrial hemp” and legal to sell and possess in Pennsylvania (Will Trostel)

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Chris Coyle writes primarily on government, the courts, and business. He retired as an attorney at the end of 2018, after concentrating for nearly four decades on civil and criminal litigation and trials. A career highlight was successfully defending a retired Pennsylvania state trooper who was accused,...

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