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You may not have noticed, but the movement to legalize marijuana is quietly picking up steam across the country. This fall, as many as half a dozen states could consider ballot initiatives allowing medical patients, and others, to smoke pot. Voters in California, which has already legalized marijuana use for the sick, will consider a referendum legalizing it for any adult. Polls show that nearly 60 percent of Californians favor the initiative, which is cannily being sold as a way to raise tax revenues for a state crippled by a massive budget deficit. The ease with which pro-pot measures are being approved suggests that more could be on the way: medicinal marijuana has so far been legalized in 14 states and the District of Columbia.
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