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By law, New York’s medical marijuana program is due to be up and running for patient prescriptions by early 2016, but what’s the future of the program after that? Will enough patients sign up? Will doctors be willing to issue prescriptions?
For now, state leaders say it’s unclear how many people they expect to qualify for the program.
"I think as we roll out the program, we’re going to get more information so, right now, I anticipate there will be patients who want this therapy and we’ll have more information in the months to come," said Health Commissioner Howard Zucker.
New York’s medical marijuana program is limiting prescriptions for the drug to the severely ill. It’s a potentially limited pool of people, making the price of a prescription potentially costly.
"Obviously, we want to make sure this is affordable because this is a therapy and it can help people and...
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