Which U.S. States Have Legalized Marijuana?

As we all know from news that legal of cannabis is getting widespread. Back to Election Day in 2012, voters in Colorado approved a ballot initiative legalizing the entertaining use and sale of cannabis, making the state the first in the U.S. to do so. 

Seventeen other states, Washington, D.C., and Guam would go on to legalize the drug in the next nine years as public support for legalization rose rapidly – despite marijuana being illegal at the federal level.

Let’s see States where recreational marijuana is legal:

Colorado, Washington, Alaska,Oregon, Washington,D.C., California, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Michigan, Vermont, Guam, Illinois, Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, New Mexico, Connecticut.

Most of Americans consider that entertaining cannabis should be legal. A CBS News/YouGov poll released in April 2022 found that two-thirds of Americans hope entertaining cannabis use to be legalized under federal law and in their own state. A previous Pew survey by the center found similar levels of support for legalization.

Americans' enthusiasm for the idea has grown markedly in recent years. Just 12% of U.S. adults supported legalization in 1969, according to a November 2021 Gallup poll – a figure that rose to 31% in 2000 before accelerating above 50% after 2013.

Democrats are more possible to support legalization, but a majority of Republicans now do. People under 30 are similarly more likely to support legalization -- 81 percent of respondents in 2019 -- but a previous Gallup poll found that 62 percent of Americans ages 50 to 64 also supported legalization.

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Author: Evan Lai

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