300.937 Vaping in New York State
The Medical Society of the State of New York commends NY Governor Andrew Cuomo and Commissioner Howard Zucker, MD of the NYS Department of Health for their prompt action to protect patients by banning the sale of flavored e-cigarettes and for their advice to consumers to avoid vaporization of medical marijuana available under the NYS medical marijuana program. MSSNY recommends to Governor Cuomo, Commissioner Zucker and our NYS Legislature that they take further action to protect consumers from exposure to vaporized products with a moratorium on dispensing of vaporized products to new certificate holders for medical marijuana until data on the long term safety of vaporized marijuana is available. MSSNY recommends that our state and federal representatives work to reschedule marijuana and its’ component substances to Schedule II controlled substance to reduce barriers to further study on the efficacy and harms of various marijuana products and further that defined funding for the study of efficacy and harms of the current medical marijuana program be included in the New York State 2020-2021 budget to guide physicians and patients in the best and safest way to employ these agents and delivery systems in patient care. (Adopted Council, September 19, 2019)
