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In Colorado, cannabis has been legal for medical use since 2000 and for recreational use since late 2012. On November 7, 2000, 54% of Colorado voters approved Amendment 20, which amended the State Constitution to allow the use of marijuana in the state for approved patients with written medical consent.
In February 2015, the state of Colorado reported that tax collection figures for 2014, the first year of legal commercial sales, reached a total of $44 million from recreational marijuana with a further $32 million collected from fees on the industry and pre-existing taxes on medical marijuana. [60]
2012: Colorado and Washington become the first two states to legalize the recreational use of cannabis following the passage of Amendment 64 and Initiative 502. [46] Massachusetts approves a ballot measure to legalize medical cannabis.
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The recreational weed tax for school construction raised $3.5 million, bringing the current 2015 total to $13.7 million. To put this in perspective, only $13.3 million was brought in by the tax in ...
Significant marijuana related event [2] 2000 Colorado voters approve Amendment 20 by 54 percent. 2001 Colorado health department creates registry for patients. 2004 There are 512 patients on the registry. 2005 There are 730 patients on the registry. 2006 There are 1,040 patients on the registry. 2008 There are 4,720 patients on the registry. 2009
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]
Moreno researched how marijuana sellers in four states where recreational marijuana is legal (Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington) have advertised to underage adolescents.