U.S. states where recreational marijuana is legal
Rewrites to focus on a potential move by the U.S. government to make marijuana use a less serious crime
April 30 (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Justice is moving to make marijuana use a less serious crime, taking a step to reclassify the drug out of a category that includes heroin.
Reclassifying marijuana represents a first step toward narrowing the wide policy chasm between state and federal cannabis laws, with the drug legal in some form in nearly 40 states.
Currently, Marijuana falls under the same classification as heroin and LSD. A successful reclassification would include marijuana in the schedule three list alongside drugs such as Tylenol with codeine and ketamine.
Below is the list of U.S. states along with Washington DC that have legalized recreational marijuana:
State | Start of recreational cannabis Sales | Projected revenue in 2023** |
Ohio | Effective end of 2024 | N/A |
Minnesota | Effective 2025 | N/A |
Virginia | Effective 2024 | $198 million |
Maryland | Effective July 2023 | $477 million |
Delaware | April 2023 | $39 million |
Missouri | February 2023 | $1.56 billion |
Connecticut | January 2023 | $297 million |
New York | December 2022 | $391 million |
Rhode Island | December 2022 | $251 million |
Vermont | October 2022 | $212 million |
Washington | July 2014 | $1.20 billion |
New Jersey | April 2022 | $1.09 billion |
New Mexico | April 2022 | $650 million |
Montana | January 2022 | $346 million |
Arizona | January 2021 | $1.36 billion |
Maine | October 2020 | $413 million |
Illinois | January 2020 | $2 billion |
Michigan | December 2019 | $2.70 billion |
Massachusetts | July 2018 | $1.78 billion |
California | January 2018 | $4.90 billion |
Nevada | July 2017 | $867 million |
Alaska | October 2016 | $98 million |
Oregon | October 2015 | $941 million |
Washington D.C. | July 2014 | $1.20 billion |
Colorado | January 2014 | $1.60 billion |
** Source - TD Cowen estimates from April 19
Reporting by Mrinalika Roy, Sourasis Bose in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva and Shounak Dasgupta
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