New York’s governor Andrew M. Cuomo has called for a state panel to be created that can help him decide whether the state should make recreational marijuana legal.
According to Cuomo, an advisory group would include State Police representation and would help get the “facts” on marijuana legislation.
“I think we should fund (Department of Health) to do a study, let them work with the State Police, other agencies, look at the health impact, the economic impact, the state of the law. If it was legalized in Jersey and it was legal in Massachusetts and the federal government allowed it to go ahead, what would that do to New York because it’s right in the middle?” Cuomo remarked.
This is optimistic considering his remarks made last year.
“It’s a gateway drug, and marijuana leads to other drugs and there’s a lot of proof that that’s true,” Cuomo had said last February. “There’s two sides to the argument.
But I, as of this date, I am unconvinced on recreational marijuana.”
