Also, lawmakers say they will move on a measure – also already introduced – to greatly expand the state’s medical marijuana laws in hopes of dropping many regulatory burdens placed on health care providers and to make the product available to more patients in more areas of the state.

Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes, a Buffalo Democrat and sponsor of the marijuana bill in the Assembly, expressed disappointment the Senate could not get the votes to pass the measure.

"I do think it's a lost opportunity for the state of New York,'' she said this morning. With no chance for passage in the Senate, the majority leader added: "I would not ask the (Assembly) Speaker to press any one of our 81 members who agreed to vote for it to vote for something that's not going to happen.'' The Assembly has 150 members.

As for the decriminalization, records' expungement, medical marijuana expansion and a new hemp regulatory system that are considered alternative, Plan B efforts now the legalization is dead, Peoples-Stokes said there is still work being done on those matters. "That's still open,'' she said heading back to her post on the Assembly floor.

Marijuana legalization opponents, however, were not stopping their fight to make sure the stalled bill does not re-emerge in the final couple days of session.