Illinois Senate Will Vote on Medical Marijuana
Illinois' Sate Senate will vote on a bill to legalize marijuana for seriously ill patients. As it stands now, eleven states have legalized medical marijuana and eleven states (including Illinois) are currently considering such legislation. Of the eleven that already allow medical marijuana (Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington), eight are in the West. Part of the reason for this regional difference is that the West allows for measures to be put on the ballot by citizen petitions.