Nine States Are Voting on Marijuana Legalization on Tuesday

Voters in nine states will vote on whether or not to legalize marijuana on Tuesday.

Voters in Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada will vote on whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use.

California’s Prop. 64 is the most lenient marijuana legalization measure. In addition to legalizing marijuana, the proposition also reportedly sets up the framework to retroactively reduce the sentences of people who are in jail for marijuana-related offenses and allows their records to be expunged.

Voters in Arkansas, Florida, Montana, and North Dakota won’t be voting to legalize recreational marijuana, but will decide whether to allow medical marijuana in their respective states.

Polls have shown that marijuana legalization is likely to pass in the states voting on full legalization measures. In states voting on medicinal marijuana, however, the decision remains a toss-up.

If successful, almost a quarter of the American population will be living in a state with some form of legalized marijuana.

Alaska, Oregon, Colorado, Washington, and the District of Columbia currently have legal marijuana. California, Nevada, Arizona, Montana, New Mexico, Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, Louisiana, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware all reportedly have legalized medical marijuana.