Here is an article on the failure of the medical cannabis bill in the 2012-2013 session of the New York State legislature. It indicates that reform advocates will try again next session to get a medical cannabis bill passed. As discussed in a previous post, it is time to give up on that campaign. I… Read More Post-mortem on the medical-use-only bill in the New York State legislature

On June 14 the sponsors of the medical cannabis bill in the New York State Assembly and Senate introduced a new version of the bill. This bill is worse than no bill. It would be best if this bill does not pass. Unfortunately, Jeff Klein, the leader of the independent bloc of Senate Democrats who… Read More New York: the new version of the medical cannabis bill is worse than no bill

I am sharing with you a few things I find particularly interesting in the latest version of the medical cannabis law proposed for New York State.  First, this bill now provides for the creation of an advisory committee that will advise the Commissioner of Health in promulgating the regulations that will give effect to the… Read More Comments on the proposed New York State cannabis law