NY Legislators Introduce Recreational Marijuana Bill
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Now that New York has legalized medical marijuana, many advocates are pushing for decriminalizing the drug entirely.
Such was the top of a public hearing Wednesday at Buffalo City Hall.
Downstate Senator Liz Kreuger and Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes have introduced the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act, which would legalize the drug for people over the age of 21.
They say the cost of criminalization of the drug is too great compared to the benefits.
“We have lost the war and in the process of losing the war, we have literally lost communities,” Stokes said. “Families have been destroyed. Children have been without parents and we have spent a lot of money, not just in the criminal justice system, but in the social network for those families after they lost their members to incarceration.”
The goal of the legislation is to regulate and tax marijuana similar to alcohol...
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