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"If they are starting to suggest that I need to twist arms, then that’s a bad sign. Because arm-twisting doesn’t work. And it means they don’t have the political support.”

"There’s a lot of cannabis users, there’s a lot of people that use but are afraid to come out of the cannabis closet. Come out of the closet, be loud, be proud, because it’s coming."

Pollsters said it's not every day they see public opinion shift so rapidly.

Marijuana legalization has been left out of the state budget, but advocates say not all hope is lost.

"We're not going to allow regulation to be shoehorned in a big ugly act at the end of June. We're going to fight for legislative response that is actually comprehensive."

Supporters of legalizing recreational marijuana plan to hold rallies each day at the State Capitol this week.

There are still many unanswered questions about who would be permitted to grow marijuana, distribute it and sell it.

Cuomo is drawing some lines in the sand on items that he said must be in the spending plan, like a permanent property tax cap.

John Witzgall and Bob Bolus have a lot in common. Beyond retirement age and living in the Scranton area, they both voted for Donald Trump in 2016. Witzgall, 69, is a school bus driver. Bolus, 76, owns a trucking company. But when it comes to legalizing marijuana in Pennsylvania, they are miles apart.

As part of his State of the State, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his plan to legalize recreational marijuana under the Cannabis Regulation and Taxation Act. In a hearing on Wednesday, a committee of health and policy experts testified before the state legislature about the efficacy of the bill.