How Cannabis-Friendly Is Your State?
Ever wonder how your state stands up to the others in terms of marijuana tolerance? We don't mean how much your state can smoke, but how tolerant the locals are toward cannabis. The real-estate website Estately has the answer.
Using specialized metrics, they put together rankings for all 50 states in their "Marijuana Enthusiasm Index." The criteria are: the percentage of monthly marijuana users, the average price of cannabis, the average number of marijuana-related Google searches, the legal status of marijuana and expressions of public interest (based on Facebook user data).
Here are five interesting findings.
1. Almost all the legal states made the top five
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In fact, Colorado, Washington and Oregon made the top three. Legal Alaska placed 12th due to its low score on affordability. New Mexico and Maine rounded out the top five.
2. The states most likely to legalize...
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