Many States Have The Cash Munchies

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http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=474500

This has been a bumper year for marijuana legislation, according to state policy observers. Crushing state budget deficits gave advocates in California, Washington, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New York and elsewhere an opening to pitch marijuana as a new source of tax revenue. At the same time, the Obama administration gave users and distributors some breathing room by signaling in October that it would scale back on prosecuting them as long as they comply with state law.

Eighteen states discussed medical marijuana through legislation or citizen initiatives this year, an unusually high number. Most visibly, California election officials announced on March 24, that this year’s ballot would include a question to allow local governments to legalize and tax marijuana, casting a spotlight on the state that first legalized medical marijuana in 1996.

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1. Is that map old? Colorado already has med. marijuana. n/t