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Marijuana legalization: Big changes across country

  • Written by Sam Méndez, Executive Director, Cannabis Law & Policy Project, University of Washington

This year’s election season was historic in more ways than one. An unprecedented nine states considered liberalizing cannabis laws, and here’s how it broke down: California, Massachusetts and Nevada saw their ballot measures pass. If Maine’s ballot measure is also approved, that would bring the total number of states with legal...

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