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Cuomo the final hurdle for emergency access to medical marijuana

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 06/17/2015 - 09:36

Critically ill patients, including children with severe epilepsy, could gain faster access to medical marijuana under a bill passed by the state Senate on Monday and by the state Assembly earlier this month.

And for one local mother who has a daughter who has numerous seizures, access to medical marijuana can’t come soon enough.

That legislation, sponsored by state Sen. Joseph Griffo, R-Rome, would provide a process to give expedited access to medical marijuana to certain patients before the state’s medical marijuana program begins early next year.

“We’ve been told that medical marijuana could be available for the most extreme cases by late summer, early fall,” Griffo said. “Of the more than 40 organizations that have applied for licenses in New York, a number have stated that they could be up and running within three months.”

But hurdles remain. Gov. Andrew Cuomo might not sign the bill.

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