Senate Leadership is Holding Up a Vote on the Bill, Leaving Sick New Yorkers to Needlessly Suffer
Senate Refuses to Act on Bill Supported by More Than 80% of New York Voters and Thousands of New York Patients, Doctors & Caregivers
Rockville Centre, Long Island — Today, parents of children with epilepsy and patients living with multiple sclerosis and other serious, debilitating medical conditions will rally at the Rockville Centre LIRR station across from Senate Co-president Dean Skelos’ office to demand a vote on the Compassionate Care Act (S.4406-B/Savino and A.6357-B) in the New York Senate. The bill, which would create one of the nation’s most tightly regulated medical marijuana programs, would allow seriously ill patients access to a small amount of marijuana un