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A New York medical cannabis prescription. In July 2014, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation permitting the use of cannabis for medical purposes, following a "lengthy, emotional debate" in the issue in the Senate and 49–10 Senate vote. Cuomo's signing began an 18-month window for the state Department of Health to enact a medical ...
[100] NBA head coach Steve Kerr has also expressed support for allowing the use of cannabis in professional sports. [101] NBA players that have advocated for the legalization of cannabis include Harrington, [102] Cliff Robinson, [103] and Oscar Robertson. [104] Harrington appeared in a video ad to endorse California's Proposition 64 in 2016. [102]
The New York Farm Bureau supported the bill. [22] The district attorneys of Albany County and New York County (Manhattan), David Soares and Cyrus Vance Jr., published an op-ed in the New York Daily News supporting the bill, citing its correction of racial injustice and the freeing up of finite law enforcement resources for other matters. [23]
David Robinson, New York State Team June 14, 2024 at 3:20 AM New York regulators approved home grown cannabis rules this week, allowing adult New Yorkers to now possess up to 12 cannabis plants ...
For example, major national cannabis conglomerates are expected to enter New York's adult-use marketplace through measures approved earlier this year. That included rules that allow existing ...
New Yorkers can now possess and use up to 3 ounces of cannabis under a legalization bill signed Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, while sales of recreational-use marijuana won’t become legal for ...
2014: New York City decriminalized cannabis through a new policy announced by city officials. [117] 2015: Wichita, Kansas decriminalized cannabis through voter referendum. [118] 2015: Miami-Dade commissioners voted to decriminalize cannabis. [119] 2015: Toledo, Ohio residents voted to decriminalize possession of cannabis less than 200 grams. [120]
Although draft legislation would end federal marijuana prohibition, the weed market opening up in New York is an even bigger catalyst for cannabis, according to an industry veteran.