Live Long and Smoke Weed: The Year's 6 Biggest Drugs Stories, Good and Bad
The future for legal pot and drug reform is very much in doubt.
As 2016 comes to a tumultuous end, we look back on the year in drugs and drug policy. It’s definitely a mixed bag, with some major victories for drug reform, especially marijuana legalization, but also some major challenges, especially around heroin and prescription opioids, and the threat of things taking a turn for the worse next year.
Here are the six biggest stories from the year on drugs.
1. Marijuana legalization wins big
Pot legalization initiatives won in California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada, losing only in Arizona. These weren’t the first states to do so — Colorado and Washington led the way in 2012, with Alaska, Oregon and Washington, D.C., following in 2014 — but in one fell swoop, states with a combined population of nearly 50 million people just freed the weed. Add in the...
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