Peoples-Stokes: progress towards NY legal recreational marijuana
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) â Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes is confident recreational marijuana will be legalized in New York during this legislative session.
âI m actually more confident than I have been in the past,â said Peoples-Stokes.
In years past, the assemblywoman has proposed bills to legalized marijuana, but all died before being approved. In 2020, the bill was pushed back for more pressing legislation concerning the COVID-19 pandemic.
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ALBANY – Pressure for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign was building Thursday after a letter signed by 59 Democratic state lawmakers called for him to step down and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said the chamber would conduct its own investigation into the embattled governor s future.
Cuomo was under a new round of criticism after a sixth accuser Wednesday was revealed to have been sexually harassed by the Democratic governor.
The latest case was considered perhaps the most damning: The unnamed aide told her superiors that Cuomo groped her and tried to put his hand under her blouse at the governor s mansion, according to the Times Union of Albany. That would counter Cuomo s contention that he never touched anyone inappropriately.
After years when sexual harassment accusations drove demands for swift departures, some now say full investigations are needed to give accusers their say and the accused due process.
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ALBANY – Pressure for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign was building Thursday after a letter signed by 59 Democratic state lawmakers called for him to step down and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said the chamber would conduct its own investigation into the embattled governor s future.
Cuomo was under a new round of criticism after a sixth accuser Wednesday said the Democratic governor sexually harassed her.
The latest case was considered perhaps the most damning: The unnamed aide told her superiors that Cuomo groped her and tried to put his hand under her blouse at the governor s mansion, according to the Times Union of Albany. That would counter Cuomo s contention that he never touched anyone inappropriately.
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