Meet Assemblyman Steve Katz, New York’s Ted Haggard — or Gary Aldridge — of cannabis.

In June, the Republican lawmaker voted no on a bill that would give doctors the right to prescribe weed for chronic medical conditions, a measure similar to one touted as arguably the most conservative of its kind in the country by State Senator Diane Savino.

Well, surprise, surprise — last night the medicine-hating zealot Katz had a little run-in with a trooper on the New York Thruway: