"The past few months have been really stressful," said Diane Steinman, the executive director of the New York chapter.
"This is a really dramatic step," said Rachel Leon, executive director of the New York chapter of Common Cause.
She became executive director of the embryonic New York City chapter of Norml, a Washington-based group, three months ago.
His father was the executive director of the New York City chapter of the American Lung Association.
They now have three, and he is a director of the New England chapter of the Ferrari Club of America.
He was also a former legal director of the New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
