Cuomo anticipates that he’ll have better luck next year. He said the rates of taxation and pricing, minimum buyers’ age, maximum volumes allowed and the forms in which the drug can be marketed are issues that should be coordinated with New Jersey, Connecticut and other nearby states.
“Because if New York’s system isn’t competitive, then they’ll drive to New Jersey where you could possibly get something that you couldn’t get here,” Cuomo said Tuesday during an interview on WNYC radio. “You don’t want people driving distances and then driving back.”
The state could take longer to legalize weed — as Gov. Andrew Cuomo tries to coordinate New York’s policy with surrounding states.
Cuomo said in a radio interview Tuesday that he wants to create a “regional symmetry” with Connecticut and New Jersey on pot legalization and regulations on vaping. He said he would get the ball rolling on his plan with Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont on Wednesday.
“I want to talk to Connecticut, and then I want to talk to Jersey, about having a regional symmetry on vaping products and marijuana,” Cuomo told Long Island News Radio’s Jay Oliver.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced on Tuesday that he plans to meet with the governors of Connecticut and New Jersey to discuss ways to create consistency within each state’s respective marijuana programs as they move forward with plans to legalize.
While the debate over New Jersey marijuana legalization has largely become a question of "will they or won't they," law enforcement officials are preparing for the most likely scenario.
What if "they" don't legalize weed ... but a neighboring state does?
After months of will-they-won’t-they activity, both New Jersey and New York failed to deliver on legalizing adult-use cannabis. What once seemed to be foregone conclusions to many turned out to be two hard doses of reality that leaves citizens and lawmakers with a foul taste in their mouths.
Instead of adult-use legalization, both have since pivoted to focus on expanding other cannabis parameters.
A push to legalize recreational marijuana in New York has failed after state leaders did not reach a consensus on several key details in the final days of the legislative session.
Sen. Liz Krueger, a Manhattan Democrat and the lead sponsor of the main legalization bill in her chamber, confirmed Wednesday that her legislation would not pass this year.
Illinois became the 11th state in the nation Tuesday to legalize adult-use marijuana after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a recreational bill into law.
The governor’s historic bill signing comes not long after New York and New Jersey both failed to legalize potential billion-dollar commercial recreational programs.
What lessons were learned by the cannabis industry, and how are business strategies shifting?
Why did those states fail, while Illinois succeeded in approving recreational marijuana via a legislative move?
Despite the three most powerful people at the Capitol publicly supporting marijuana legalization this year, state lawmakers left Albany last week with only a consolation prize.
Advocates, lobbyists and lawmakers attribute the legislative failure to tepid support from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, Democratic senators playing both sides of the issue, apathy from legislative leaders and a well-organized opposition.
According to one frustrated lobbyist who worked on the issue: "There's plenty of blame to go around."
A BILL TO LEGALIZE recreational marijuana in New York is dead for now, its sponsor said, ending a push by lawmakers and advocates to pass the measure before the end of the scheduled legislative session Wednesday.
With just two days to go in the current legislative session, New York state lawmakers are making a last-minute push to legalize marijuana.
The effort to legalize cannabis really kicked off this year, after Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his support for marijuana legalization in 2018 and introduced a proposal to legalize soon after. But despite Cuomo’s support and Democratic control of the state’s legislature, the proposal has struggled to get through — due to political concerns and disagreements about how the money from marijuana taxes should be used.