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A strong majority of registered voters in New York want their legislature to legalize the use of medical marijuana in the state, according to a new poll by Siena College. Nearly twice as many voters support medical marijuana as oppose it.
Siena College 5/6-10
Do you support or oppose legalizing the use of medical marijuana in New York State?
57% support
33% Oppose
8% Don’t have enough information
2% Don’t Know/No opinion
Looking at the crosstabs, medical marijuana has broad support from the entire population of the state. A majority of every age group, gender, geographic region, religious group and income bracket supports the state legalizing medical marijuana. The only group with a plurality opposed is Republicans with 46 percent against and 44 percent for.
Currently there is a bipartisan effort underway in the state capital to approve medical marijuana before this legislative session ends, but Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo has been rather dismissive of the bill. One can only hope this new poll showing that the voters overwhelming support medical marijuana will spur the state government to finally act on this issue and provide relief to those in need.
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Good thing we elected more and better Democrats like Cuomo. Imagine what a Conservative Republican’s position would be on Medical MJ. /S
solid in the northeast many Republicans are not much better on this issue than the Dem governors. In New Hampshire the Republicans wanted to pass medical marijuana until the dem governor stopped them.
Andrew Cuomo started sounding like another DNCbot as soon as he got the nomination. Useless, and will never lead on this.
This NYer wants marijuana completely legalized.
Unbelievably, there were comments on FDL last week proposing this corporate tool, Cuomo, as a possible choice for president in 2016.
Without the newly declared Unconstitutional “Stop and Search” and decriminalization of Pot, the NYPD might actually have to do some real police work for once. Don’t count on it thou they would probably just spend the extra time ruining the rest of our civil rights with their new drones and the cameras that see thru walls and ceilings, not to mention the GPS they use against us already.
It should be legalized everywhere, the state of Colorado took over $30 million in revenues last year alone in tax’s from the distribution centers in the state…