Despite electoral successes, it remains unclear how the new measures will affect those who have been disproportionately targeted in the war on drugs
From the Pacific Northwest to the Deep South, drug legalization won big nationwide on election day in America.
Under the first state law of its kind, people in Oregon soon won’t be arrested for possessing small amounts of drugs including heroin, meth and cocaine. In New Jersey, Arizona, South Dakota and Montana, voters joined 11 other states and the District of Columbia in legalizing recreational marijuana. Washington DC passed an initiative to make mushrooms and other natural psychedelics the lowest possible enforcement priority. Even Mississippi legalized medical marijuana.
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