Will Texas see legalized marijuana?
The election wasn't just about Republicans and Democrats, marijuana also won big on election night. Voters approved recreational marijuana in California, Nevada, Massachusetts and Maine. Medicinal marijuana passed in Montana, North Dakota, Arkansas and Florida.
But will either of those measures ever reach Texas?
We have seen a very slight softening on the attitudes of legislators here in Texas when it comes to marijuana legislation, but there is still a long way to go before there's any sort of wide-scale legalization.
"Well we're seeing that the voters are saying that the failed policy of prohibition is not the policy that they want to continue enacting," said Jax Finkel, Executive Director of Texas NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws).
Finkel believes Tuesday night's elections, in which eight of nine marijuana-related initiatives passed, lay the groundwork for changes.
"It's starting in January, that we're going to have our opportunity...
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