Jan 4th 2014, 23:14, by Dante D'Orazio
New York may soon join the ranks of states that allow medical marijuana. Following the first legal sale of recreational marijuana in the United States in over a century, governor Andrew Cuomo is set to announce an executive action that will loosen restrictions on marijuana, according to The New York Times. According to the report, the policy will be very strict: only twenty hospitals across the state will be granted permission to prescribe marijuana to those with cancer, glaucoma, or any other disease explicitly approved by the state's Department of Health.
The state currently has some of the tightest policies against weed — according to the Marijuana Policy Project the state has the second highest number of arrests per capita for...
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