The District of Columbia has fully legalized recreational and medical marijuana, but recreational commercial sale is currently blocked by Congress. Twelve states have both medical marijuana and decriminalization laws. Ten states, Guam, and Puerto Rico have only legalized medical marijuana. Three states and the U.S. Virgin Islands have only decriminalized possession laws. The remaining twenty-two states and two inhabited territories state that marijuana possession and sales are illegal and prohibited entirely.
Rank of Maine, Education. Compared to all other states and the District of Columbia, Maine ranks relatively high when considering the number of students per teacher and on the amount spent per pupil. However, Maine ranks very low when comparing teacher salaries. It does rank fairly high in the percent of residents with high school or bachelorâs degrees, though that may reflect the high proportion of older and retired people in the state.
The richest person in Maine is Leon Gorman, the chairman of the board of L.L. Bean.The real estate brokerage, Movoto, released its map of the wealthiest Americans by state on Friday.hile Mr. Gorman has big bucks ($860 million of them to be precise), he ranks 48th on the list of the wealthiest in each state. He is richer than Delawareâs Robert Gore ($830 million) and Alaskaâs Robert Gillam ($700 million.).