ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who has previously called cannabis a "gateway drug," will include a marijuana legalization proposal in his 2019 executive agenda.

"Let's legalize the adult use of recreational marijuana, once and for all," Cuomo said in a speech in Manhattan Monday, previewing his annual State of the State address, which occurs in early January.

The legislation will be part of Cuomo's criminal justice reform platform, which includes ending cash bail, and marks a sharp turn for the third-term Democratic governor, who has expressed resistance to the idea as recently as 2017.

"We have had two criminal justice systems: one for the wealthy and well off, and one for everyone else," Cuomo said Monday. "And that's going to end."

While other states have moved forward with legalization efforts, including neighboring Massachusetts and New Jersey, New York has moved more cautiously. Cuomo approved a limited medical marijuana program in 2014 that has gradually expanded.

The governor channeled former New York governor and President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his remarks, asking "What would FDR do?" if he were saddled with what Cuomo describes as an "assault" by federal government on New York values.

He touted 20 policy items to be accomplished during the first 100 days of his third term, including a "Green New Deal" on the environment, electoral reforms, and gun control measures.

"I believe this aggressive, progressive agenda, although hard, is what FDR would say these troubled times demand," Cuomo said.

On the environmental front, Cuomo called for New York's electricity to be 100 percent "carbon neutral" by 2040 and vowed to create limits on industrial toxins that have permeated drinking water sources in the state.

Many environmental activist groups hailed the governor's proposals as important steps to addressing the threat of climate change, while other called for a more aggressive approach: for New York to transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030.

"Cuomo calls the climate crisis a matter of life and death, but unfortunately his policies don't match the lofty rhetoric. A vague pledge of carbon neutrality by the year 2040 is not the bold action necessary to move New York off fossil fuels," Food & Water Watch Northeast Region director Alex Beauchamp said in a statement.

The governor called for the banning of bump stocks, the passage of a "red flag" measure to block purchase or possession of firearms by those deemed to be an "extreme risk" to themselves or others, and extending the waiting period for purchasing a gun from three days to 10 days.

With a Democratic-controlled Legislature, Cuomo said he anticipates items like codification of federal abortion rights, the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), the DREAM Act, and the Child Victims Act, which loosens the statute of limitations for victims of childhood sex abuse, to pass easily in 2019.

On electoral reform, Cuomo updated his "Democracy" platform from previous sessions. It includes automatic voter registration, voting by mail, early voting, a combined state and federal primary day, and turning Election Day into a state holiday.

To reform the state's campaign finance system, Cuomo is calling for LLC loophole closure and publicly financed elections.

The proposed reforms earned high marks from electoral reform groups and good government organizations, who called on the Legislature to make them a reality in 2019.

"Since the last century, Democrats supported overhauling our campaign finance system and establishing a public matching system to finally end undue influence and corruption in Albany," said John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany. "Now that Democrats control all levers of power, words must become action, and promises finally fulfilled to New Yorkers who have been waiting decades for change."

Cuomo also blasted the federal government's 2017 tax overhaul, saying it negatively impacted homeowners in the state. To address this, he vowed to lower middle class taxes and to continue to fight for the restoration of the state and local tax deduction, known as SALT.

He proposed extending the millionaires tax, and making the state's 2 percent cap on property tax growth permanent.