News: NY Governor Cuomo authorizes the use of medical marijuana

Governor Andrew Cuomo is considering taking executive action to allow certain hospitals to dispense medical marijuana.
Thanks to a law passed in 1980, Cuomo is legally allowed to make such a decision without the legislature's approval. That law allows the governor to set up a highly regulated system that is less liberal than many of those found in other parts of the country.
As reported by CNN, "Under Cuomo's directive, the state health department would take charge by setting up the guidelines and picking hospitals that would take part. These hospitals would then have panels of people who decide, on a person-by-person basis, which patients qualify for medical marijuana."