Following the liberal footsteps of Colorado and Washington, Alaska, Oregon and the District of Columbia passed ballot initiatives to legalize marijuana this month.
The movement to end marijuana prohibition has made significant progress recently, but it could all be undone when the next president takes office in 2017.
A former corrections officer took his own life over the weekend after being found guilty in a case involving marijuana-infused butter, his attorney said.
A Russian diplomat who heads the United Nations’ drug policy office reportedly chided U.S. states for legalizing recreational marijuana and vowed to take up his concerns with officials in Washington -- in the latest incident of a U.N. official meddling in local U.S. affairs.