Medical Marijuana’s 12th Anniversary
November 10th, 2008 by Perry
In all of our overzealous post-Obamamania recovery, we lost sight of a very important anniversary. On Tuesday, November 5,1996 the first medical marijuana law was passed in California.
The Marijuana Policy Project said in the years since 56% of California voters decided to stop criminalizing the ill, and public support for legal access to medical marijuana has grown to nearly 80%. Not to mention 12 other states are now on board, most recently Michigan and Massachusetts, which leaves the movement halfway to the 26 needed to draft a national resolution.
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