With Democrats disappointed in the House and Senate, and Republicans fretting over Joe Biden’s widening lead in the still-undecided presidential vote, the clear winner of Tuesday’s US elections is legalized drugs.
Voters approve recreational cannabis in Arizona, New Jersey and Montana, and South Dakota becomes the first state to legalize medical and recreational pot use at the same time. Fifteen states now allow recreational pot smoking.
Mississippi passes a law to allow medical marijuana use for a range of conditions.
Oregon becomes the first state to remove imprisonment as a punishment for possession of small amounts of hard drugs, including cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. Possession of the drugs will be a misdemeanor and incur a $100 fine.
Oregon votes to legalize psilocybin mushrooms, and Washington, DC, decriminalizes possession of shrooms.
Workers harvest a fresh crop of marijuana at the Loving Kindness Farms in Los Angeles, May 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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