Could This Halt Marijuana's Expansion in Its Tracks?

Marijuana, the drug that even a decade ago was generally too taboo to talk about, has officially gone mainstream and is captivating the nation.

Marijuana is no longer a taboo topic
According to the most recent polls from national research firms Gallup, the Pew Research Center, and the General Social Survey, somewhere between 51% and 53% of respondents now favor across-the-board legalization of marijuana. Smaller studies that have been conducted in individual states have suggested that support for medical marijuana legalization is considerably higher (70%-plus in most studies).

Aside from representing a slice of freedom from the federal government's historically tight regulation of the illegal schedule 1 drug, access to marijuana for patients with chronic or terminal diseases has been a primary stimulus behind the marijuana movement's push.

Since 1996, when California passed the Compassionate Use Act and became the first state to establish a medical marijuana program whereby...

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