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2014: Guam legalized medical cannabis through ballot measure. [131] 2014: The United States Virgin Islands decriminalized cannabis. [132] 2015: Puerto Rico legalized medical cannabis by executive order. [133] 2018: The Northern Mariana Islands legalized recreational cannabis through an act of legislature. [134]
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]
Country/Territory Recreational Medical Notes Afghanistan Illegal Illegal Main article: Cannabis in Afghanistan Production banned by King Zahir Shah in 1973. Albania Illegal Legal Main article: Cannabis in Albania Prohibited but plants highly available throughout the country and law often unenforced. On 21 July 2023 the Albanian Parliament voted 69–23 to legalize medical cannabis. Algeria ...
In 1972, California became the first state to vote on a ballot measure attempting to legalize cannabis. Proposition 19 – the California Marijuana Initiative – sought to legalize the use, possession, and cultivation of cannabis, but did not allow for commercial sale. [144]
Recreational marijuana is regulated and taxed but legal in Massachusetts, with retail sales from licensed dealers becoming legal on November 20, 2018. Legalization occurred in staging, with decriminalization followed by legal medical marijuana before full legalization.
Now, cannabis has been fully legalized for recreational use in 24 states, three U.S. territories and Washington D.C., with most states having some sort of state nullification of federal cannabis laws. [32] In 1969, Gallup conducted a poll asking Americans whether "the use of marijuana should be legal" with only 12% at the time saying yes. [33]
Cannabis in Washington relates to a number of legislative, legal, and cultural events surrounding the use of cannabis (marijuana, [a] hashish, THC, kief, etc.).On December 6, 2012, Washington became the first U.S. state to legalize recreational use of marijuana and the first to allow recreational marijuana sales, alongside Colorado.
2018: Malta legalized cannabis for medical use. [111] 2018: Portugal legalized cannabis for medical use. 2018: South Korea legalized cannabis for medical use. [112] 2018: Zimbabwe legalized cannabis for medical use. [113] [114] 2018: Canada legalized cannabis. [115] 2018: Thailand legalized cannabis for medical use. [116]