What Marijuana Means to the Green States [INFOGRAPHIC]

The results are in: crime decreases in areas where marijuana is legal.

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(SALEM, Ore.) - Colorado and Washington both legalized recreational use of marijuana in 2012. Since legalization, Denver’s violent crime has dropped by 10.6% and homicide is down to less than half of its 2013 level.

In July 2014, Washington made $2.4 million in pot sales. There’s a lot to consider with the legalization of marijuana. Learn more about the influence it has had on these two states.

Oregon and Alaska vote in November.

CivicScience conducted a survey that asked this question: "Would you support or oppose a law in your state that would legalize, tax, and regulate marijuana like alcohol?"

Fifty-eight percent of the 450,000 U.S. adults that responded to the survey over the last two years said they support marijuana legalization.

39 percent said they "strongly support" & 19 percent said they "somewhat support" reformed marijuana laws.

Thirty-five percent oppose legalization, with 29% of those "strongly" opposing, and 6% "somewhat" opposing regulating marijuana like alcohol.

What will this new freedom mean in terms of dollars and cents?

See the INFOGRAPHIC below:

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jim heffner September 7, 2014 3:47 am (Pacific time)

The weight of 10,000 years of the history of Cannabis use by humanity against 80 years of "Reefer Madness". I consider this to be history returning to normal course. Cannabis never should have been banned. The positive thing about Prohibition is it is teaching us that we can eventually correct the errors of government if we persevere. Let's just 'keep on truckin'. When this struggle is over and a comprehensive documentary is produced about it, we could call it "A Return To Sanity".

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