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Cannabis in Nevada became legal for recreational use on January 1, 2017, following the passage of Question 2 on the 2016 ballot with 54% of the vote. The first licensed sales of recreational cannabis began on July 1, 2017. Medical use was legalized after a pair of ballot measures passed in 1998 and 2000. Legislation to allow for licensed sales ...
2000: Hawaii becomes the first state to legalize medical cannabis through state legislature. [32] 2000: Nevada and Colorado legalize medical cannabis through ballot measure. [30] 2001: Nevada decriminalizes cannabis through state legislature. [33]
Efforts to legalize cannabis included a number of ballot initiatives leading up to 2012, but none succeeded. In 2012, success was finally achieved when Washington and Colorado became the first two states to legalize. In 2014 and 2016 several more states followed, and in 2018 Vermont became the first to legalize through an act of state ...
Less than two weeks after sales of recreational marijuana kicked off in Nevada, stores are running out of pot to sell. Nevada sold out of legal marijuana so quickly, the governor wants to declare ...
In November 2016, the number of legal states doubled as four more states passed ballot measures to legalize cannabis: California, Nevada, Massachusetts, and Maine. [180] This included the nation's most populous state (California), while Massachusetts and Maine became the first eastern states to legalize.
It’s been years since Nevada voters first approved legalizing recreational cannabis. In 2021, lawmakers cleared the way for business owners to apply for licenses to establish on-site consumption ...
November 8, 2016: medical marijuana legalized as of July 1, 2017, when voters passed Amendment 2 by 71%. [ 47 ] In 2019, legislation under Senate Bill 182 was enacted, allowing individuals with eligible medical conditions to acquire smokable cannabis from authorized medical marijuana dispensaries.
As for 438, residents could vote "for" or "against" the legalization of the possessing, manufacturing, distribution, delivery and dispensary of medical marijuana in the state.