Well, At Least Marijuana Won Big On Election Night!

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A majority of states support legalizing weed at this point – at least for medical purposes. Yesterday California, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Maine became the latest states to fully legalise it for recreational purposes.

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“This is the most momentous Election Day in history for the movement to end marijuana prohibition.”

Voters in eight out of nine states that went to the polls on the issue of marijuana reform voted to roll back longstanding restrictions on the drug.

Election night brought several astonishing, wholly unforeseen results. But let’s put the presidential campaign aside for a second and talk about weed.

Marijuana was on the ballot in nine states on Tuesday. Voters in eight of those states went to the polls and approved measures to roll back longstanding restrictions on the drug, delivering a historic victory for marijuana police reformers.

By the end of the night, four states approved recreational marijuana, with California, Nevada, Massachusetts and Maine all rejecting prohibition and opting to tax and regulate the drug instead. The efforts doubled the number of states with legal weed, bringing the total to eight, which are…

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