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Home 🌿 Marijuana Business News 🌿 Father of New York's Medical Marijuana Program Wants More Companies Licensed to Grow and Sell 🌿Father of New York's Medical Marijuana Program Wants More Companies Licensed to Grow and Sell
New York's medical marijuana law, known as the Compassionate Care Act, launched just last month, but has been the target of harsh criticism since Governor Andrew Cuomo signed it in July 2014. Now, Albany's biggest advocate for legal medical marijuana, Manhattan Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, has introduced legislation to improve the program. Gottfried, who originally introduced the law in 1997, has been among the most forthright critics of the version that was eventually made into law.
Albany's latest legislative session began less than a month ago, and already Gottfried proposed a new bill that would direct the New York State Department of Health to approve at least five more companies — called "registered organizations" — to grow and sell medical marijuana. The current law allows only five companies to produce and market the products. "In order to speed up the process, it authorizes the [Health] Department to...
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