Cash Crop (via Slate and Big Money) is a blog that is keeping track of the changes in marijuana legislation.
A wide majority of New York State residents support legalizing pot for medicinal use, according to a poll conducted by Cornell University. The support cuts across geographic, demographic, and, to a lesser degree, political lines.
More than two-thirds of New Yorkers want medical pot legalized, a fact that could help push a forward a proposal in the state legislature to approve it. According to High Times, bills to allow medical pot have come up several times over the past dozen years, and have even passed the state assembly twice, only to be shot down in the Senate.
The legislature might yet pass a bill this year, though, since the state's budget, now three months late, is being debated in Albany. The state could raise between $10 million and $15 million a year from legalizing pot. Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried, the Democrat sponsoring the bill, told the Poughkepsie Journal that his law, if passed, would be the "most narrow and restrictive of any law in the country."
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