Pot lobbyists target conservatives in New York legalization drive

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Source: The Raw Story

Since 1996, 12 US states have enacted legislation permitting medical use of marijuana, prescribed under the supervision of a doctor, to patients who are seriously ill. Earlier this month, the Marijuana Policy Project, a top D.C. pot lobby group, announced it had designs on number 13: New York.

While it is no surprise that New York and its blue-tinged electorate would make a logical target for the medical legalization push -- not to mention a nice East Coast bookend for advocates' successes in California ten years ago -- the pot policy group's tactics in the Empire State are not so predictable.

They're wooing conservatives.

"We're focusing on Republicans in New York swing districts," the group's communications director, Bruce Mirken, told RAW STORY. "Places where these people are not dead certain they're going to win their elections."

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