Approved on November 8, 2016 with 53.66% of the vote, Massachusetts Question 4 legalized adult possession, home cultivation, and the first licensed recreational dispensaries east of the Mississippi River.
Twenty years after passing Prop 215, California voters approved Proposition 64 on November 8, 2016 by a 57.13% to 42.87% vote, creating the world's largest regulated cannabis market and authorizing prior-record relief.
Approved by 70.06% of District voters on November 4, 2014, Initiative 71 legalized possessing up to 2 ounces, growing up to 6 plants at home, and gifting up to 1 ounce between…
On November 4, 2014, Alaska voters approved Ballot Measure 2 by 53.23% to 46.77%, legalizing commercial cannabis sales nearly forty years after the Alaska Supreme Court's landmark Ravin privacy ruling.
Forty-one years after becoming the first state to decriminalize cannabis, Oregon voters approved Measure 91 on November 4, 2014 by a 56.11% to 43.89% vote.
Approving Initiative 502 by 55.70% to 44.30% on November 6, 2012, Washington joined Colorado in legalizing adult-use cannabis while choosing a state-licensed retail model without non-medical home grow.
On November 6, 2012, Colorado voters approved Amendment 64 by a 55.32% to 44.68% margin, legalizing adult possession, 6-plant home cultivation, and the world's first state-licensed recreational cannabis stores.
In 2010, New Jersey signed the Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act on January 18, and on November 2 Arizona voters approved Proposition 203 by a razor-thin 50.13% to 49.87% margin—just 4,341 votes…
On November 4, 2008, Michigan voters approved Proposal 1 by a 62.68% landslide—winning all 83 counties to become the first Midwest medical cannabis state—while Massachusetts voters decriminalized possession with 65.09% Yes.
On November 2, 2004, Montana voters approved Initiative 148 by a 61.81% to 38.19% landslide, joining Vermont (which enacted medical cannabis via its legislature in May 2004) as the ninth and tenth…
On November 2, 1999, Maine voters approved Question 2 by a 61.41% to 38.59% vote, making Maine the fifth state overall and the first on the East Coast to legalize medical cannabis.
Two years after California's Prop 215, voters in Alaska (58.7%), Oregon (54.6%), and Washington (59.0%) approved medical cannabis ballot measures on November 3, 1998.
On November 5, 1996, California voters approved Proposition 215 by a 55.58% to 44.42% margin, enacting the nation's first statewide medical cannabis law.