Last Tuesday, voters in five states decided whether or not to legalize marijuana in some form. Only one measure passed, the pro-legalization law firm Goodwin Proctor reports. Voters in Florida, North Dakota, and South Dakota rejected measures to legalize recreational marijuana. Arkansas voters passed a proposal to expand medical marijuana, but the state Supreme Court ruled prior to the election that the votes could not be counted. Nebraska became the thirty-ninth state to legalize the substance for medical use, but the decision faces an ongoing legal challenge.
In an attempt to reframe the debate about legalizing marijuana, this report never uses the term “recreational marijuana,” but instead uses “adult-use cannabis.” Recreational drug use is not an adult right. Hopefully this ploy does not gain traction as the push to legalize marijuana continues here and elsewhere.
