Nick Niedzwiadek reports at Politico that New York's Department of Health released a study July 13 recommending marijuana legalization. The report says that positive affects of legaliing recreational marijuana outweigh the negative consequences. “It is imperative that a regulated marijuana program contain all necessary safeguards and measures to limit access for individuals under 21, minimize impaired driving, provide education, and tailored messaging to different populations, and connect people to treatment if needed,” the 74-page document states. The report guesses that between $248 and $678 million in annual tax revenue would come to New York State coffers, if marijuana was legalized in New York, and crime prevention costs could fall if the law changed. Governor Andrew Cuomo has gone from calling marijuana a “gateway drug” last year, to last month, when he predicted legalization’s eventual inevitability saying “for all intents and purposes” recreational marijuana is “going to be here anyway.” Read the full story at Politico.