{"id":53227,"date":"2021-03-25T15:45:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T15:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/new-york-politicians-finally-come-to-consensus-on-how-to-legalize-adult-use-weed\/"},"modified":"2021-03-25T15:45:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T15:45:02","slug":"new-york-politicians-finally-come-to-consensus-on-how-to-legalize-adult-use-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/new-york-politicians-finally-come-to-consensus-on-how-to-legalize-adult-use-weed\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Politicians Finally Come to Consensus on How to Legalize Adult-Use Weed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the fourth year in a row<\/u><\/a>, New York lawmakers are proposing a bill to legalize cannabis retail sales and use. Each of these prior attempts has failed, but this year, it\u2019s looking like legalization could finally become a reality<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Governor Andrew Cuomo included an adult-use proposal in this year’s state budget<\/u><\/a>, as he has done for the past several years<\/u><\/a>, but criticism from state lawmakers sent it back to the drawing board. Over the past months, lawmakers have been meeting with the governor to hammer out the final details. Now, at long last, these discussions have resulted in a bill that the state Senate, Assembly, and governor are reportedly happy with.<\/p>\n

Now that a deal has been reached, lawmakers are expected to vote on the bill next week<\/u><\/a> in order to meet the state budget deadline of April 1. If the legislature passes the bill without extensive changes, Cuomo is expected to sign it into law. Conservative lawmakers have killed<\/u><\/a> every former attempt at legalization, but now that neighboring New Jersey<\/u><\/a> has legalized adult-use, more politicians are accepting the inevitability of cannabis reform.<\/p>\n