Marijuana Legalization: Understanding the Future of Marijuana - Medical and Recreational

The latest Gallup poll reports that exactly half of Americans say that marijuana should be legalized; opinion couldn't be more evenly divided.

Marijuana is forbidden by international treaties and by national and local laws across the globe. But those laws are under challenge in several countries. In the U.S., there is no short-term prospect for changes in federal law, but sixteen states allow medical use and recent initiatives to legalize production and non-medical use garnered more than 40%...