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“We have additional challenges in Wisconsin because there is such a partisan divide in the Capitol building,” Democratic State Rep. Melissa Sargent of Madison, who introduced the bill, told the Badger Herald. Legalizing marijuana, she said, would help lower crime and improve the economy. The law includes a 25 percent excise tax and could pull in an estimated $177 million in tax revenue from legal marijuana sales over two years.
Medical marijuana is legal in 23 states and the District of Columbia. Four of those states – Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington – and...
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