ALBANY - Wanda Hernandez has been living with HIV/AIDS for over a decade. 

She says she's tired of feeling like a criminal for using marijuana to battle the effects of her illness.

"Because of my HIV medication, I have constant battles of nausea and I have trouble holding down the food that I need to maintain myself and stay healthy but when I can use marijuana, it helps me settle my stomach and I feel comfortable," Hernandez said at a news conference in the Legislative Office Building.

Committee chairs in both the Assembly and the State Senate are pushing for a law that would allow doctors to prescribe marijuana.

The patient would be required to register with the Department of Health and under most circumstances purchase the pot from a hospital or pharmacy.  

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's legislative leaders have agreed to move the Sept. 11 political primary in remembrance of the deaths and rescues in the 2001 terrorist attacks.
    
Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos say an agreement has been struck to move the primary to Sept. 13.
    
Skelos says Tuesday it's tempting to hold the primary as scheduled in defiance of terrorism but he's honoring a request by New York City firefighters and police officers.
    
The Senate passed the measure Tuesday. The Assembly is expected to follow suit within days.
    
The 2001 attacks came on a primary day, which was suspended.

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