On Monday, the Assembly’s Oversight Committee heard from experts on cannabis legalization, the first action taken in the Assembly on marijuana since new Democratic Speaker Craig Coughlin took over leadership of the chamber this year.
“I’m going to let the committee do its work and I’m going to look at what they’ve done,” Coughlin told the Associated Press prior to the hearing. “Certainly on my own I’ll start to look at the issue and do what we can to get it right.”