For a long time New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been passionately anti-pot, even calling marijuana a "gateway drug" last year. But a study he commissioned in January has reached another conclusion and will recommend that the state legalize recreational weed.
“We realized that the pros outweigh the cons and the report recommends a regulated, legal marijuana program be available to adults in the state of New York,” Howard Zucker, the state health commissioner, announced at a news conference on Monday. Zucker said the study had "considered a wide range of issues—including the age of allowed use, impaired driving, and production and distribution—and concluded that legal marijuana could be done statewide."