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Marijuana legalization explained - Katie Couric

Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 08/07/2015 - 15:34

When it comes to the legalization of marijuana in the United States, the landscape of marijuana in the United States is changing. According to a Gallup Poll, 51 percent of Americans think it should be legal. Compare that to 12 percent in 1969.

Recreational use of the drug is already legal in Colorado, Oregon, Washington state, Alaska and Washington, D.C. And 23 states allow medical marijuana.

At the federal level, however, it’s still illegal. But the states have been given some breathing room by the government. President Obama said in a YouTube interview, “The position of my administration has been that we still have federal laws that classify marijuana as an illegal substance, but we’re not going to spend a lot of resources trying to turn back decisions that have been made at the state level on this issue.”

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