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Several US states vote for marijuana legalization

Americans across the country voted Tuesday for the right to inhale without going to jail, legalizing recreational marijuana in four states, and medical marijuana in three others.

In California, where medical marijuana is already legal, voters approved recreational pot, a major coup for backers of pot legalization.

The new laws make pot legal in some form in more than half the country—28 states—redrawing the legal landscape and presenting a challenge to federal authorities.

The Associated Press projected recreational pot measures also passing in Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada; and medical pot measures passing in Arkansas, Florida and North Dakota. A recreational pot measure failed in Arizona.

The results mean that nearly 68 million Americans, or about 21% of the U.S. population, will now live somewhere where it is legal to use marijuana for fun.

California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada follow in the footsteps of Colorado and Washington state, which legalized recreational pot in 2012, and Alaska, Oregon and the District of Columbia, which did so two years ago.

The Wall Street Journal has more.
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