“U.S. Resident Population in States that Permit Medical or Recreational Marijuana Use”

Via email, I received news of this new accounting (with some typos) of reform states and their populations recently produced by folks at Carnevale Associates LLC.  In addition, the same folks previously produced a three-page Policy Brief headlined “Policy Debate Must Adjust to Changes in State Law and Public Opinion”  which I promoted in this prior post titled “Highlighting the ‘knowledge gap’ as marijuana reform moves forward at a speedy pace“

Though I will not crunch the numbers here, the accounting of states and populations reveals that before last week, there were roughly 20 million Americans living in states which had passed full marijuana legalization by initiative.  Now, thanks to big states like California and Massachusetts and with a little help from Nevada and Maine, the number of Americans living in states that have passed full marijuana legalization has tripled to over 65 million.