Governor Heeds Advocates’ Call to Expand New York's Medical Marijuana Program, Adopts Recommendations From Dept. of Health NEW YORK—Today, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his office will sign off on all 12 recommendations made by the Department of Health in its recent two-year report evaluating the rollout and current status of New York’s medical marijuana program. […]
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Report Finds Too Few Patients Can Access Medicine Through New York’s Overly Restrictive, Expensive Medical Marijuana Program
Seventy-seven Percent of Patients & Caregivers Surveyed, Who Accessed the Program, Say They Cannot Afford the Medicine They Need Advocates Call On New York State Legislature to Pass Bills to Increase Patient Access to Medical Marijuana New York – Today, the Drug Policy Alliance issued a report assessing the first four months on the state’s […]
Assessing New York’s Medical Marijuana Program: Problems of Patient Access and Affordability
June 13, 2016 PDF View the report. DPA Publication New York became the 23rd state to roll out its medical marijuana program on January 7, 2016. The law has been criticized as being one of the most restrictive and burdensome programs in the country. This report, an assessment of the first four months of the […]
New York’s Cannabis Growers Lobby for More Medical Patients
New York’s medical marijuana program is considered one of the most restrictive in the nation, a ragtag system currently providing fewer than 4,000 patients across the entire state with access to cannabis products. However, in an attempt to prevent the newfound indus… Read article here: High Times
Patients and Their Families Gather in Albany to Demand Changes to New York’s Broken Medical Marijuana Law
Advocates: Too Few Patients Can Access Medicine Through the Overly Restrictive, Expensive Program Slate of Bills Would Remove Barriers to Participating in the Program and Expand Patient Access Albany – Today, dozens of advocates gathered in Albany to urge legislators to support a slate of bills that would amend the Compassionate Care Act, New York’s […]
TUESDAY: Patients and Their Families Will Gather at State Capitol to Demand Changes to New York’s Broken Medical Marijuana Program
Advocates: Too Few Patients Can Access Medicine Through the Overly Restrictive, Expensive Program Slate of Bills Would Remove Barriers to Participating in the Program and Expand Patient Access Albany – On Tuesday, April 12th, dozens of advocates gathered in Albany to urge legislators to support a slate of bills that would amend the Compassionate Care […]
New York’s Senator Schumer Throws Weight Behind Federal Medical Marijuana Legislation
Senator Schumer Joins NY Senator Gillibrand in Sponsoring the CARERS Act, a Bill that Would End Federal Prohibition of Medical Marijuana New York Patients and Families Applaud Schumer for His Support New York – Today, Senator Schumer (D-NY) added his name to the Senate’s sweeping medical marijuana bill. The CARERS Act, introduced in March by […]
Downtown Brooklyn May House New York’s First Pot Dispensary
Earlier this month, PalliaTech—a company vying for one of New York state's limited medical marijuana licenses—announced that it had signed a lease in Brooklyn for a dispensary that could open as soon as January. Read article here: High Times
DPA: Fix New York’s Broken Marijuana Policies
New York State senators and policymakers joined the leaders of the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) Thursday night to deliver a rousing plea for funding to fight to implement the existing New York medical marijuana law, and support upcoming legislation to tax and regulate marij… Read article here: High Times
New York’s Medical Marijuana Regulations Grow Even More Restrictive
New York's medical marijuana program is on track to become one of the most restrictive in the nation. With over 100 pages of "painfully precise" rules, the new guidelines are bound to create numerous headaches for patients and dispensary owners. Just don'… Read article here: High Times