Marijuana legalisation across the USA continues to grow with more states deciding to allow adult use of cannabis at the 2020 election.
Currently, you can purchase recreational cannabis products in the following states:
- Alaska
- California
- Colorado
- Illinois
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Nevada
- Oregon
- Washington
All of these states are providing recreational use cannabis to their residents in some form or another. California is estimated to be the largest market with approximately $11 billion per year made from the sticky icky in this state.
The following states have legalised recreational cannabis use but are yet to get recreational sales up and running:
- Arizona
- Montana
- New Jersey
- South Dakota
- Vermont
These states legalised at the 2020 election which is why recreational sales haven't yet began in these states.
The following states have legislated for medicinal use of marijuana, but recreational use is still illegal:
- Arkansas
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Hawaii
- Louisiana
- Maryland
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- New Hampshire
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- Utah
- Virginia
- West Virginia
Medical marijuana is big business and usually this declines when recreational use is legalised. Some states are resisting full legalisation as a result of pressure from some of these medicinal companies
These states are still holding out and cannabis is totally illegal, both medically and recreationally:
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Nebraska
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
'Pot Stocks' are big business as legalisation grows. Slowly the USA is becoming green. Those conservative states will surely legalise medicinal use at least. There are a number of other states planning to put the legalisation of cannabis to the vote at the 2022 election which will have more states going 'green'. It is yet to be seen whether this will become a more world-wide phenomena as the years pass.
