Four states in the US vote to legalise medicinal and recreational marijuana

Four states— New Jersey, South Dakota, Arizona and Montana have voted to legalise marijuana for recreational and medicinal use.  

A majority of New Jersey and Arizona voters voted yes on ballot measures that made recreational marijuana legal. The New Jersey state’s legislature will draft and pass a legislation on how the state will legalise use of the plant.

South Dakota is the first state to legalise recreational as well as medicinal marijuana at the same time. The state has a second ballot to legalise recreational marijuana, but projections point towards a positive epitome even as votes are being counted. 

Eleven other states and the District of Columbia already allowed for legal recreational marijuana use prior to Election Day.

Arizona's Proposition 207 will allow adults over the age of 21 to possess, consume or transfer up to 1 ounce of cannabis. Its Department of Health Services will be responsible to create a regulatory system for the drug's cultivation and sale.

Montana’s initiative 190 would allow adults in the state to possess and buy cannabis for recreational use and allow those serving sentences for certain cannabis-related acts to apply for resentencing or records expungement. As per initiative 118, only those above the age of 21 in the state will be allowed to would be allowed purchase, posses or consume cannabis.