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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 It's All but Confirmed: Marijuana Legislation Is Going Nowhere on Capitol Hill in 2016 🌿It's All but Confirmed: Marijuana Legislation Is Going Nowhere on Capitol Hill in 2016
At the state level, marijuana has been practically unstoppable for the past two decades.
Since California legalized medical marijuana in 1996 for certain ailments, 22 additional states, as well as Washington, D.C., have taken similar steps. Furthermore, we've witnessed residents in four states -- Washington, Colorado, Oregon, and Alaska -- approve initiatives designed to legalize recreational marijuana since 2012.
The impetus for legalization seems to be everywhere you look. From the perspective of medical patients, marijuana has demonstrated potential clinical benefits when tested as a treatment for epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type 2 diabetes, and even certain types of cancer, such as glioma. In a lot of these indications more conclusive testing is needed, but they offer hope to millions of chronically or terminally ill people.
Consumers as a whole also seem to be behind the push toward legalization. Three national polls -- Gallup, General Social Survey, and Pew...
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