People around NY are celebrating today over legalization in the region. Cuomo just recently announced that he has signed legislation that pushes cannabis legalization forward in the area for adult cannabis use.

They will also be doing away with old cannabis records for activities that would've been permitted under the new rules that now make it legal.

Cannabis advocates have been pushing for these changes in the region for years, as we have seen them working to do in other areas. There are still a number of places that harshly criminalize cannabis and people who have been placed behind bars for years even for just a joint.

More and more today we see that people agree with the common sense of ending the war on cannabis, it's a violation of human rights to lock up a person for their personal consumption of a plant.

let them grow, let them trade cannabis

Our communities are going to be better off for it, because they can flourish under freedom and liberty and suffer under rigid, unjust, and nonsensical criminalization of victimless activities and plants.

The war on drugs doesn't keep communities safe, it endangers and bankrupts them.

Time for a change and now NY is one more region that is going to look to tax cannabis patients and use that money to supplement their other failures.

Many of these cannabis patients are low income earners, many veterans and seniors, and many of them cannot afford the 20 or 30 percent tax that comes on their medicine. They shouldn't have to suffer with that level of pain in trying to afford what they need just because outdated and archaic thinking still holds onto the ignorant stigma surrounding cannabis use.

We've seen how greedy these legalization changes can be in looking to take that much from a simple exchange. Thankfully for some they have the right to grow at home but even those rights are limited and not everyone is going to be given that freedom to grow. In places where they are allowed to grow even today, there have been discussions of going backwards and limiting those rights because of allegations that these home-growers are 'fueling the illicit market' with their own personal supply.

2nd biggest cannabis market in U.S.

New York has the potential and is expected to become one of the biggest cannabis markets in the country, possibly the 2nd largest of them all. Now that recreational cannabis is legal that is going to give people there one more option rather than traveling to nearby states that might have already legalized long ago.

This make quickly grow to a $3 billion market or more just in New York.