A person prepares a marijuana cigarette in New York City on April 20, 2024. Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Virginia lawmakers have approved legislation legalizing recreational use of marijuana and commercial sales starting in 2024. Richard Vogel/AP hide caption
A soldier carries marijuana plants to be destroyed after a large plantation was seized in Hostotipaquillo, Mexico, in 2012. A new bill in Mexico's Congress would legalize pot, and with its authors' party in the majority, it is likely to pass. Bruno Gonzalez/AP hide caption
Michigan has become the first state in the Midwest to legalize recreational marijuana, after voters approved a ballot measure Tuesday. Here, a clerk reaches for a container of marijuana buds at Utopia Gardens, a medical marijuana dispensary in Detroit. Carlos Osorio/AP hide caption
A demonstrator at a marijuana legalization rally in Washington, D.C., on Inauguration Day 2017. Theo Wargo/Getty Images hide caption