Gov. Andrew Cuomo expressed pessimism about the prospects for passage this year of a newly amended bill to legalize marijuana in New York for adult, recreational use, saying during a radio interview Tuesday that the votes weren’t there to approve the legislation in the State Senate.

The comments from Cuomo—a supporter of wider legalization of marijuana—came after a coalition of defense attorney organizations publicly urged the Legislature to pass the new version of the bill, which would legalize the drug and allow low-level marijuana-related convictions to be expunged.