(CNN) Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that a bill legalizing marijuana -- and the revenue anticipated from such a proposal -- would not be included in the state's upcoming budget, predicting that the state legislature would come to an agreement on pot by June.

"For us, marijuana is a relatively new issue," Cuomo told WNYC's Brian Lehrer Wednesday. "It really started with my proposal this year but they have signaled that they need more time to talk about it. Therefore I didn't want to count the revenue for marijuana in this budget."

"If we could get it done by the budget, that would be great," he added. "But there's a whole legislative session after the budget and my take is it will be done during the legislative session post budget and therefore I took the revenue out of the budget."

When asked whether some counties threatening to opt out of the legislation could slow its progress, Cuomo said they would not, pointing out that they would then lose their share of the state revenues from marijuana sales.

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