Governor Eliot Spitzer announced today that he could support medical marijuana in New York, and a bill is currently working its way through the legislature. Conversations with advocates over the past months swayed him, proving that some politicians do care.
The support, he acknowledges, is conditional. "It depends
upon access control, how you regulate it, how you ensure you're not
just dispensing a narcotic," he said. Assemblymember Richard Gottfried (D-Manhattan) had already introduced a medical marijuana bill, and he says that it has been amended to address concerns raised by Spitzer's aides.
