New York Police Unions Oppose Legalizing Recreational Marijuana

File photo of a New York Police Department police car patrolling an area that had witnessed an explosion in the use of K2 or "Spice," a synthetic marijuana drug, in East Harlem, New York City, on Sept. 2, 2015. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The New York state association of police unions has expressed its unanimous opposition to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s plans to legalize recreational marijuana.

The group’s president was cited by the New York Post as saying that plans to legalize pot in the state amounted to an irresponsible “money grab.”