I.
Marijuana Policy in the
United States Today
November 6,
2012, marked a shift in drug policy in the United States, for while many voters
took to the polls to elect a variety of political figures, voters in the states of Colorado and Washington passed two voter initiatives which marked a shift in drug
policy in the United States. At the
beginning of January 2014 recreational use marijuana dispensaries opened up in Colorado—Washington State’s dispensaries are not fully set up yet and may take until June—with people
traveling from as far as Ohio to purchase some of the United States’ first legally
sold recreational marijuana.
