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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 ...
New York legislators and then Gov. Andrew Cuomo legalized recreational cannabis use in 2021 for people older than 21. The drug had been decriminalized and approved for medical use.
2014: New York City decriminalized cannabis through a new policy announced by city officials. [116] 2015: Wichita, Kansas decriminalized cannabis through voter referendum. [117] 2015: Miami-Dade commissioners voted to decriminalize cannabis. [118] 2015: Toledo, Ohio residents voted to decriminalize possession of cannabis less than 200 grams. [119]
Further regulation of cannabis followed in Massachusetts (1911), New York (1914), and Maine (1914). In New York, reform legislation began under the Towns-Boylan Act, which targeted all "habit-forming drugs", restricted their sale, prohibited refills in order to prevent habituation, prohibited sale to people with a habit, and prohibited doctors ...
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]
An adult cannabis dispensary that's among Rockland County’s first to receive a state license has launched delivery service and plans a spring Nyack village store opening.
Treehouse Cannabis, Rockland's first officially licensed adult-use recreational cannabis dispensary, opened its storefront in Nyack Aug. 15. "Needless to say, this has been an interesting journey ...
July 23, 2013: medical marijuana legalized when Governor Maggie Hassan signed HB 573. [122] [123] July 11, 2015: Governor Hassan expanded medical marijuana law. [124] July 18, 2017: Governor Chris Sununu signed bill decriminalizing up to 0.75 oz (21 g). [125] New Jersey: Legal to possess up to 6 oz (170 g). [126] Licensed delivery services ...