Claim: New York state has legalized heroin.
Verdict: REFUTES

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title: David Carlucci
text: which provides discount drugs for senior citizens. The expansion allows for an increase in number of senior citizens living in New York who will qualify for the program. The expansions passed in early 2014. In June 2014, Carlucci’s bill to create a relapse prevention program to combat heroin addiction in New York State became a law. The program provides educational legal, financial, social, family, and childcare services, in addition to peer-to-peer support groups, employment support, and transportation assistance, for recovering addicts. In the summer of 2011, Carlucci was the subject of a segment on "The Daily Show" entitled "Corn-Hold." This

title: Andrew Cuomo
text: available to 20 designated hospitals for the treatment of cancer and glaucoma. Later in July, New York became the 23rd state to allow the medical use of marijuana, as the Governor signed the Compassionate Care Act, not without drawing the criticism of legalization activists, though. In August 2017, the Cuomo administration awarded more than $7 million - financed with money from large bank settlements - in grants to New York colleges to offer courses to New York prisoners. In January 2018, Cuomo proposed reforms that would "reduce delays during trials, ban asset seizures in cases where there has been no

title: Nelson Rockefeller
text: lead more addicts to seek rehabilitation as hoped, and ultimately did not solve the problem of drug trafficking. These were among the toughest drug laws in the United States when they were enacted and are still on the books, albeit in moderated form. To carry out the rehabilitation program Rockefeller created the State Narcotics Addiction Control Commission (later the State Drug Abuse Control Commission.) New York also provided the financial support for research in methadone maintenance and the administration of the largest methadone maintenance program in the US. On September 9, 1971, prisoners at the state penitentiary at Attica, NY,

title: Anthony Papa
text: years to life imprisonment for a first time drug offense. New York's strict drug laws, enacted during the term of former governor Nelson Rockefeller, and now known as the Rockefeller drug laws are among the toughest in the United States. The possession of or more of such drugs as heroin and cocaine — or the sale of or more of the same substances — carried the same penalties as those imposed for second-degree murder. (The laws were revised in 2004/2005.) The book "15 to Life" is currently being transformed into a major film as reported by "Variety". This film option

title: Marijuana Policy Project
text: making New York the 23rd medical marijuana state. The law's passage is the product of many years of work by legislative champions, patients, their loved ones, and advocacy organizations, including MPP, Compassionate Care NY, and the Drug Policy Alliance. The new law will protect certain seriously ill patients who use marijuana pursuant to their doctors’ advice from civil and criminal penalties. A number of modifications were made at the insistence of Gov. Cuomo. As a result, patients will not be allowed to smoke medical cannabis, the law will sunset after seven years, and there will be no more than five

title: Cannabis in New York
text: as Christmas trees". Gleason oversaw incineration of the plants in Woodside, Queens. In 1939, New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia assigned a committee to investigate the issue of cannabis in his city. The committee released its report in 1944, concluding that the "gateway theory" was largely false, and that cannabis was not widely associated with addiction, school children, or juvenile delinquency. The report infuriated Harry Anslinger, commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, who branded it unscientific. In 1973, New York governor Nelson Rockefeller signed legislation increasing the penalty for selling or more of heroin, morphine, "raw or prepared opium," cocaine,

title: Rockefeller Drug Laws
text: the same drugs, but this provision was subsequently omitted from the bill and was not part of the legislation Rockefeller ultimately signed. The section of the laws applying to marijuana was repealed in 1977, under the Democratic Governor Hugh Carey. The adoption of the Rockefeller drug laws gave New York State the distinction of having the toughest laws of its kind in the entire United States — an approach soon imitated by the state of Michigan, which, in 1978, enacted a "650-Lifer Law," which called for life imprisonment, without the possibility of parole for the sale, manufacture, or possession of

title: Timothy M. Kennedy (politician)
text: which legalized same-sex marriage in New York. The bill was signed into law by Governor Cuomo. In 2012, Kennedy introduced a package of four bills to combat the opioid epidemic in New York. One of the bills would create a prescription-monitoring system for physicians and pharmacists to track the prescription of narcotic painkillers. This proposal was made by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. In 2013, Kennedy co-sponsored legislation to increase the state minimum wage to $9 an hour, and automatically adjust the minimum wage to account for cost-of-living increases. In 2014, Kennedy introduced legislation that would limit the

title: Rockefeller Drug Laws
text: Under the new law, judges now had the authority to sentence defendants convicted of drug offences on guilty plea to shorter sentences, probation or drug treatment - the last known as "Judicial Diversion". Prior to 2009, drug treatment was available at the discretion of prosecutors. The sentencing was made retroactive, which allowed over 1000 incarcerated defendants to apply for resentencing and possible release. New York City has been called the cannabis-arrest capital of the world, with over 40,000 arrests in 2008. Despite New York's decriminalization of simple possession, New York City police arrest suspects for possession in public view, which

title: Cannabis in New York
text: variety of issues, including the legal, economic, and social ramifications recreational marijuana could have on New York. Cuomo's evolving opinion is likely due to Americans growing acceptance of marijuana, along with the negative impact the 2017 tax law is anticipated to have on New York. The Department of Health completed its study and has recommended the legalization of marijuana in New York, citing economic, public health, and public safety benefits. Cannabis in New York Cannabis in New York is illegal for recreational use, but is permitted for medical use, and possession of small amounts is decriminalized. Offenses related to the

title: Rockefeller Drug Laws
text: have imposed harsher penalties for non-violent drug offenses, but crimes related to drug use did not decrease. Throughout the 1980s this was only made worse with the imposing drug laws on dawning the newly highly popularized drug of crack-cocaine, which is said to have "caused the New York State prison population to triple." As of 1973, the state's prison population was approximately at ten thousand, but with the help of the Rockefeller drug laws, by the year 2002 out of the approximately seventy thousand state inmates, "19,164 were incarcerated for drug offenses" which upon drug offenses alone had nearly doubled

title: Alcohol laws of New York
text: In March 2016, drinking in public in Manhattan was decriminalized. Alcohol laws of New York The alcohol laws of New York are among the most lenient of any state in the Atlantic Northeast of the United States, but they remain considerably more restrictive than those of Louisiana, Missouri (see alcohol laws of Missouri), Nevada, Illinois, New Mexico, and Arizona. The New York State Liquor Authority (NYSLA) and its agency arm, the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (DABC), were established under New York State Law in 1934 to "regulate and control the manufacture and distribution within the state of alcoholic beverages

title: Rockefeller Drug Laws
text: 20-year minimum. On December 14, 2004, New York Governor George Pataki signed into law the Drug Law Reform Act (DLRA) (2004 N.Y. Laws Ch. 738 (effective January 13, 2005)), which replaced the indeterminate sentencing scheme of the Rockefeller Drug Laws with a determinate system. The DLRA also reduced the minimum penalty for conviction on the most serious (A-I felony) drug charge in New York from 15 years to life, to 8 years in prison, for an offender with no prior felonies. In addition, the weight thresholds for the two most serious possession offenses (A-I and A-II) were doubled (thus making

title: Al Graf
text: the heroin epidemic. Al Graf Alfred C. Graf (born February 13, 1958) is an American politician who served in the New York State Assembly from 2011 to 2017. He is a Republican. In the New York State Assembly, he represented portions of the towns of Brookhaven and Islip, including Holbrook, Lake Ronkonkoma, Ronkonkoma, Holtsville, Centereach, Selden, parts of Farmingville, Islandia, North Patchogue and Stony Brook in Suffolk County on Long Island. He is presently serving as a Suffolk County District Court Judge. Graf was born and raised on Long Island and graduated from Farmingdale High School in 1976. He enlisted

title: Rockefeller Drug Laws
text: them apply to fewer defendants), and those serving life sentences were permitted to apply for re-sentencing. Since 2004, the number of prisoners serving sentences for A-I narcotics felonies has been cut by more than half. In his first State of the State address in January 2009, New York Governor David Paterson was critical of the Rockefeller drug laws, stating, "I can't think of a criminal justice strategy that has been more unsuccessful than the Rockefeller drug laws." In April 2009, the New York Penal Law and the New York Criminal Procedure Law were revised to remove the mandatory minimum sentences.

title: Cannabis in New York
text: debate" in the issue in the Senate and 49–10 Senate vote. Cuomo's signing began an 18-month window for the state Department of Health to enact a medical marijuana program to provide non-smoked method of cannabis consumption to patients. The legislation awarded five contracts to private marijuana growers who would each be allowed to operate four dispensaries. In his 2018 State of the State address Governor Cuomo urged the New York State Legislature to fund a study on the effects of legalizing marijuana for recreational use. The study would be conducted by the Department of Health and would examine a wide

title: Svante Myrick
text: Global Shaper's Community to promote local change for global impact. Myrick has said that his father's struggles with drug addiction helped inspire him to create a committee to confront the heroin problem.After nearly two years of research by the Municipal Drug Policy Committee formed in April 2014 by Myrick, on February 25, 2016, Ithaca proposed the implementation of the country's first supervised heroin injection site. If implemented, the site would be breaking various laws unless Ithaca received a waiver from the governor and federal authorities. The Ithaca Plan proposes the implementation of a Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program (LEAD), in

title: Cannabis in New York
text: or cannabis or possessing or more of the same substances, was a minimum of 15 years to life in prison, and a maximum of 25 years to life in prison. In 1977, New York decriminalized possession of 25 grams or less of marijuana, to an infraction with a $100 fine. However, possession in public view remained a misdemeanor, and civil rights advocates stated that this was used as a loophole to unfairly arrest. A "New York Times" editorial noted in 2012: In response to the continued arrests for marijuana possession, in 2014 New York City mayor Bill de Blasio directed

title: Cannabis in New York
text: the NYPD to cease arrests, and instead issue tickets, for small possession even in cases where the 1977 law might allow an arrest, such as cannabis entering "public view" during a stop-and-frisk. However, the "Village Voice" noted in 2016 that despite a sudden drop following de Blasio's direction, arrests have "gone back up just as quickly." In 2018 the Manhattan and Brooklyn district attorneys announced that they would continue reducing the set of offenses that they would prosecute. In July 2014, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation permitted the use of cannabis for medical purposes, following a "lengthy, emotional

title: Kathy Hochul
text: to chair the 10 regional economic development councils which are the centerpiece of the administration's economic development plan. The goal of the councils is to build upon the unique strengths of each region to develop individualized long-term strategic plans. Governor Cuomo appointed Lieutenant Governor Hochul to chair the Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Abuse and Addiction. In this capacity, she convened eight outreach sessions across New York State to hear from experts and community members in search of answers to the heroin crisis and works to develop a comprehensive strategy for New York. Hochul spearheaded Governor Cuomo's Enough is