Marijuana Reform Takes a Step Back in an Unlikely State

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Bad news for supporters of legal marijuana: One state's highest court recently announced it was voiding a decriminalization ordinance that passed last April.

Ready or not, here comes marijuana!

The past two decades have featured a fairly steady expansion in the legal uses of marijuana across the United States. Since 1996, when California passed Proposition 215, which allowed marijuana to be medically prescribed to treat select ailments, a total of 23 states, along with Washington D.C., have legalized the use of marijuana for specific approved conditions.

But legal marijuana isn't just for the sick anymore. Voters in Colorado and Washington state in 2012, and Oregon and Alaska in 2014, approved initiatives legalizing recreational marijuana for those 21 and older. Serving as guinea pigs for the rest of the country, Colorado's and Washington's legislatures have relished the extra revenue being generated by retail marijuana sales. This tax revenue isn't going to...

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