Savino issued the following statement via email: «Today's vote in the Assembly is an enormous step forward towards legalizing the safe and
regulated use of medical marijuana.
Not exact matches
«First, adjust to
medical marijuana, then move down the path to decriminalizing, taxing and
regulating adult
use and the fact that the governor has now — for I believe the first time — signaled he is interested in even having an evaluation by his own people
of this issue, I think, is a huge step forward for New York State,» Krueger continued.
The court held that MUMA «does not
regulate the conduct
of a private employer or protect an employee from being discharged because
of authorized
medical marijuana use.»
The new federal law will permit adults to home - grow or possess small quantities
of marijuana and continue to permit heavily
regulated commercial production
using the federal licensing regimes already established for
medical marijuana.
It is clear that that can not go on indefinitely and there are now multiple bills pending in Congress and both the US House and the US Senate that would rectify this issue, that would explicitly and once and for all say that
marijuana policy and the decision whether or not to
regulate the adult
use of marijuana or the
medical use of marijuana is a decision that is left solely up to the discrimination
of the individual states.