A tipping point’: Psychedelics, cannabis win big across the country on election night
January 25, 2021
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Marijuana grows at the Harmony Dispensary
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a constitutional amendment to legalize
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/ The New York Times via Redux Pictures
fileNov. 5, 2020, 2:06 AM +03 / Update
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As the nation awaits a final result from the
presidential election, a clear winner
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Measures to legalize cannabis and decriminalize
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On Tuesday, South Dakota became the first
state whose voters approved both recreational
and medical cannabis in the same election.
Medicinal marijuana also was made legal in
Mississippi. Meanwhile, New Jersey, Montana
and Arizona all legalized recreational cannabis.
Full results: See 2020 ballot measures approved
“Despite this public consensus, elected officials
have far too often remained unresponsive to the
legalization issue,” Erik Altieri, executive director
Voters in Oregon and Washington, D.C., also
of the National Organization for the Reform of
Marijuana Laws, or NORML, said in a statement.
NORML has lobbied for the end of marijuana
prohibitions since it was founded in 1970.
“These results once again illustrate that support
for legalization extends across geographic and
demographic lines,” Altieri said. “The success
of these initiatives proves definitively that
marijuana legalization is not exclusively a
‘blue’ state issue, but an issue that is support
by a majority of all Americans —
regardless of party politics.”
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Just 10 years ago, recreational cannabis was
illegal in all 50 states, but that started to change
in 2012, when Colorado and Washington
became the first states to legalize marijuana
for recreational use. At the time, California,
which has one of the biggest and oldest marijuana
markets in the country, allowed only
medicinal use of cannabis.
A domino effect followed, with several more
states venturing into the medicinal markets,
including Pennsylvania in 2016 and New York
in 2014. Now, 15 states, two territories and
Washington, D.C., have legalized marijuana
for recreational use, while 34 states and two
territories allow medical marijuana.
Related
MAP: See the states where marijuana is legal
“It’s fantastic to see this cannabis sweep,” said
Stuart Titus, CEO of Medical Marijuana Inc., a
hemp products company based in San Diego.
“There is a tremendous momentum building.
I think we’re right on the precipice of changing
federal policy with so many states coming online.”
Despite the ballot initiatives, marijuana and
other drugs remain illegal at the federal level.
The Drug Enforcement Administration
Oregon, however, became the first state to
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The question posed to voters appears simple
at first glance: “Do you approve amending
the Constitution to legalize a controlled
form of marijuana called ‘cannabis’?”
While the majority of voters said yes, the
language would not necessarily decriminalize
all adult-use cannabis. Instead, it would
make only “a controlled form” of the plant
legal, said Chris Goldstein, a regional
organizer for NORML.
“New Jersey voters sent a message to the
Legislature — they want prohibition to end,”
he says. “They want people to stop
getting arrested.”
The Legislature will now have to pass
another measure to set up the new cannabis
marketplace. Whether that will reduce
marijuana arrests and convictions remains
to be seen, Goldstein said.
Meanwhile, Arizona’s measure allows people
convicted of certain cannabis crimes to
Oregon, however, became the first state to
seek expungement of their records. Arizona
Oregon, however, became the first state to
voters narrowly defeated a legal pot proposal in 2016.
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