Advocating for legal pot is kind of like same sex marriage, at least for a politician worried about image.
With SSM you had to start by saying marriage is between a man and a woman but you could support civil unions...eventually, it was safe to support SSM, as Governor Cuomo discovered.
With marijuana, you've got a lot of law enforcement and drug counseling lobbying as well as those who think weed is the devil's plaything because that's what we have been told for decades. So you have to start out with medical marijuana to help the cancer patients. Who can object to that ?
They did the same thing with gambling. It's for education (Lottery) and for casinos it creates jobs and lowers taxes.
There has to be a rationale and Governor Cuomo' planned executive action to allow medical pot is just the camel's nose under the tent. It will take longer because while NY is a liberal state , it is not libertarian like out West.
New York State Is Set to Loosen Marijuana Laws - NYTimes.com
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