A majority of Arizona voters have voted “yes” for recreational cannabis.
According to the New York Times and The Associated Press, more than 1.4 million of the state’s voters — 59.9% — have approved Proposition 207.
The move expands the Copper State’s cannabis market, which is currently medicinal only. It’s also an about face for the state’s voters, which opposed a recreational vote in the 2016 election when 52% of voters opposed the rec vote.
Today, it’s a different scenario. Arizona’s voters were expected to approve Proposition 207 due to how robust the state’s medical market has become.
“In fact, Arizona is now the largest medical-only market in the United States — you can’t drive through Phoenix without seeing billboards for dispensaries and medical cannabis products,” Kris Krane, founder at 4Front Ventures, said in a recent episode of the Benzinga Cannabis Hour.
Proposition 207 allows people 21 and over to possess and use…
