From USA Today:
"Legal marijuana is one thing many Americans agreed on Tuesday night"
American voters widely backed loosening marijuana laws across the country on Tuesday, permitting recreational use on both coasts, and dramatically expanding the number of people who can use pot as medicine or just for fun. California, Massachusetts and Nevada voters approved recreational legalization, while the vote remained too close to call Maine, based on unofficial tallies. Arizona voters appeared to have rejected recreational legalization. On the medical side, Florida, Arkansas, and North Dakota all voted in favor of medical cannabis, and Montana appeared likely to also approve it. If those results hold, 29 states will now permit cannabis use for certain medical conditions, including cancer and HIV, and seven will permit recreational use, as does the District of Columbia.
Death penalty:
Nebraska and Oklahoma voters endorsed death-penalty measures, while voters in California were still considering whether to ban it entirely or just reform it, via a pair of measures that both appeared headed for approval. Nebraska's vote came after lawmakers repealed the state's death penalty in 2015; Tuesday's vote restored it.
Minimum wage:
Colorado, Maine and Arizona voters approved minimum-wage measures, raising the wage to $12 by 2020. Washington voters approved a plan raising the wage to $13.50 over the next four years. "
“Ballot initiative wins in 2016 mark a new moment in American politics where voters will no longer wait for politicians, who have failed them time and time again, to fix our broken economy,” said Jonathan Schleifer, the executive director of The Fairness Project, which backe the initiativies. “Tonight's resounding win for economic equality sends a strong message to all of Washington: If you’re not working to create a fair economy, we'll do it ourselves.”
Assisted suicide:
Colorado's voters overwhelmingly endorsed a plan permitting residents to take their own lives, in consultation with two doctors. Colorado is now the sixth state with some form of assisted suicide.
Condom use:
In a uniquely California move, voters considered and then rejected a proposal requiring actors wear condoms in adult films. The state's workplace safety enforcement agency, Cal-OSHA, is already charged with making sure actors wear condoms in adult films for their own protection. Los Angeles voters approved a measure requiring condom use in 2012. Proposition 60 was portrayed as a health and safety measure — albeit an unusual one —that critics said could have chased the vast adult-film industry out of state.
^ I am not for recreational marijuana, but believe medical marijuana should be legal throughout the US. I also support doctor-assisted suicide. ^
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