New York is closer than ever to passing medical marijuana, but don’t hold your breath just yet

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On Tuesday, the New York State Senate’s Health Committee voted to approve the Compassionate Care Act. If the bill goes on to pass the full senate, it would create a comprehensive statewide system for New Yorkers to access medical marijuana.
I know what you’re thinking–didn’t Governor Andrew Cuomo say back in January that he was going to legalize medical weed? Yeah, he said that, but his declaration came with a truckload of caveats: the program would be limited only to patients with specific ailments, and the marijuana, which the state planned to buy from the federal government, would be dispensed at just 20 hospitals. That plan, which was allocated $0 of funding in this year’s state budget, has enough built-in logistical obstacles that, realistically, it will years before it sees the light of day, if it does at all. Read more over at the Village Voice.

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