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In 2015, the Wyoming chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) gathered signatures to place legal medical marijuana on the 2016 election ballot as a ballot initiative. Wyoming has some of the most stringent ballot initiative requirements in the country, due to which the state has not seen a public initiative ...
Timeline of Gallup polls in US on legalizing marijuana. [1]In the United States, cannabis is legal in 39 of 50 states for medical use and 24 states for recreational use. At the federal level, cannabis is classified as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, determined to have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use, prohibiting its use for any purpose. [2]
Further, legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Wyoming has reduced, not increased, the use of marijuana among school kids in those states. Both states conducted surveys of young people and ...
2018: Reflecting the increased growth of support for marijuana legalization, Gallup's annual poll showed that 66% of Americans supported legalization, including 75% of Democrats, 71% of Independents, 59% of people over 55, and at least 65% support in the East, South, Midwest, and West. [163]
Nebraska. One of the last holdouts to fully ban marijuana in the country, Nebraska’s Initiative Measures 437 and 438 would allow the state to dip its toes into legalization for medical use.
In Wyoming, a decade of pro-marijuana efforts through ballot initiatives and legislation has gotten nowhere. Gov. Mark Gordon, a Republican, has been ambivalent about legalizing medical marijuana ...
Observers noted that cannabis legalization was approved in states with both conservative and liberal electorates, making it one of the few issues to gain broad bipartisan support in an otherwise highly divisive election. [8] Vermont, which had previously legalized marijuana possession and home growing, legalized retail marijuana sales in 2020. [9]
Currently, medical marijuana is legal in the state. Amendment 3 asks voters to consider a state constitutional amendment that would allow for the possession, purchase and use of marijuana for non ...