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On January 7, 2016, New York launched the Medical Marijuana Program established under the State’s Compassionate Care Act (“Program”). The Program
is intended to deliver approved forms of marijuana to seriously ill individuals “in desperate need of treatment.” Medicinal use of marijuana in New York requires a registered physician’s certification and State-issued registry identification card.
The Program establishes that State-certified medicinal pot users “shall be deemed” disabled within the meaning of the State’s Human Rights Law (“NYSHRL”). ...
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