But because federal regulations make it difficult to study the medical effects of marijuana, it's difficult for anyone to say how long -
term recreational marijuana use affects your health.
Not exact matches
«There is still a federal law that we need to abide by in
terms of
recreational marijuana and other drugs of that nature.»
Last month, Ms. Nixon, a Democrat, got ahead of Mr. Cuomo, the two -
term Democratic incumbent, on the popular progressive issue of
recreational marijuana, something he had called a «gateway drug» just a year before.
State Sen. Liz Krueger, another Manhattan Democrat, has been pushing legislation to legalize and tax
recreational use of
marijuana, arguing state policy outlawing the drug has been costly in
terms of law enforcement resources and the futures of people convicted of crimes.
But Cuomo, who is seeking re-election to a third
term, has opposed legalizing
marijuana for
recreational use.
The poll comes after a frenetic first five weeks of campaigning, as Ms. Nixon has attacked the governor in sharp and personal
terms while rolling out some flashy progressive policy proposals, including calling for the legalization of
recreational marijuana in New York, and for the state to use 100 percent renewable energy sources by 2050.
Mr. Cuomo's primary opponent in his bid for a third
term, Cynthia Nixon, has also made criminal justice reform a central plank of her campaign, calling for the legalization of
recreational marijuana because of its disproportionate impact on the incarceration of black and Latino New Yorkers.
About a hundred years ago, however, the
term marijuana became common in the United States, the result of anti-cannabis, anti-immigrant advocates trying to link
recreational use of the plant to migrant workers from Mexico.
People who use alcohol, cigarettes, tobacco, smoke
marijuana, use
recreational drugs or take pharmaceutical drugs long
term have an accumulated toxic load in the body far beyond the average person's endo - and exotoxin load.
I think PM is a wise long
term investment if you believe
recreational marijuana will eventually be legalized at a federal level.
Legalizing
marijuana for
recreational use is unlikely to have a large long -
term effect on impaired driving rates, Toronto critical injury lawyer Dale Orlando tells AdvocateDaily.com.