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The Assembly’s chief sponsor of a multiyear effort to legalize marijuana in New York says a deal with the Senate and the governor could be made soon.
“We’re down to one impasse," Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Westchester Democrat, told reporters Tuesday.
A three-way deal – between the Senate, Assembly and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo – has not been announced on any of the components and won’t be, by tradition anyway, until all the elements are negotiated and resolved.
