One such law forced debtors to work the land until their debts were paid. By the fall of 1876, Democrats had returned to power in all Southern states except South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana. The presidential election that year ended in a dispute over the electoral votes of these three states.
State-level proposals for the rescheduling of cannabis have met with mixed success. As of November 9, 2016, the use of both recreational and medicinal marijuana has been legalized in the states of Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.
That makes California the largest state in the country to legalize recreational use of marijuana by adults 21 and older. While marijuana remains illegal under Federal law, California penalties for possession of less than one ounce of marijuana, for non-medicinal reasons, will no longer be enforced, Kleiser said.