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Recreational marijuana is legal in nearly half the country, but not in Alabama.
While 24 states let adults use cannabis without a prescription, Alabama hasn’t followed suit.
Still, the state does permit medical use. Here’s what it looks like:
Has Alabama legalized recreational marijuana?
No, Alabama does not allow adult-use of cannabis.
According to NORML, possession for personal use, even under an ounce, is punishable as a misdemeanor with up to 12 months in jail or up to a $6,000 fine.
Possession for other than personal use in any amount is punishable as a felony with penalties of 1.5 to 5 years in jail and up to $15,000 in fines.
Does Alabama allow marijuana medically?
Alabama allows marijuana for medical purposes only. Registered patients that are approved for medical cannabis can have up to 70 doses at a time, with each dose limited to 50 milligrams during the first 90 days. State rules ban smokable cannabis and edibles. Instead, products must come as capsules, tablets, tinctures, gels or similar forms. Inhalers and topical creams are also allowed. Patients under 18 years of age are limited to low-THC options.
What states have legalized recreational marijuana?
According to U.S. News and World Report, here are the 24 states to legalize marijuana:
- Washington (as of 2012)
- Alaska (as of 2014)
- Oregon (as of 2014)
- California (as of 2016)
- Montana (as of 2020)
- Colorado (as of 2012)
- Nevada (as of 2016)
- Arizona (as of 2020)
- New Mexico (as of 2021)
- Minnesota (as of 2023)
- Missouri (as of 2022)
- Illinois (as of 2019)
- Michigan (as of 2018)
- Ohio (as of 2023)
- Virginia (as of 2021)
- Maryland (as of 2023)
- Maine (as of 2016)
- Delaware (as of 2023)
- New Jersey (as of 2020)
- New York (as of 2021)
- Vermont (as of 2018)
- Massachusetts (as of 2016)
- Rhode Island (as of 2022)
- Connecticut (as of 2021)
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