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Amount (in ounces) of medical marijuana that patients in Washington D.C. are now allowed to posses:  4 (Source: The Examiner).
 
Number of dispensaries proposed for Washington D.C.:  8 (Source: NBC

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Amount (in ounces) of medical marijuana that patients in Washington D.C. are now allowed to posses:  4 (Source: The Examiner).

 

Number of dispensaries proposed for Washington D.C.:  8 (Source: NBC Washington).

 

The sales-tax percentage proposed for medical marijuana in Washington D.C.:  6 (Source: NBC Washington).

 

The cost (in thousands of dollars) of the annual permit fee to cultivate marijuana in Oakland:  211 (Source: Associated Press).

 

Amount of insurance (in millions of dollars) that Oakland cultivators will be required to have:  1 (Source: Associated Press).

 

Percentage of white Americans, ages 18 to 25, who have admitted to smoking marijuana:  56 (Source: The Marijuana Arrest Research Project).

 

Percentage of black Americans, ages 18 to 25, who have admitted to smoking marijuana: 47 (Source: The Marijuana Arrest Research Project). 

 

Percentage by which marijuana-related arrests of blacks in L.A. County surpass arrests for whites:  332 (Source: The Marijuana Arrest Research Project). 

 

Percentage by which the pre-tax “retail” price of marijuana is estimated to decline should marijuana be legalized:  80 (Source: Rand Corporation). 

 

Amount of taxes (in dollars) that would be levied for every ounce should marijuana be legalized:  50 (Source: Rand Corporation).  

 

Amount (in million of dollars) the White House is spending this year to fund local narcotics task forces: 239 (Source: The Wall Street Journal).

 

Number of states with laws permitting medical use of pot:  14 (plus Washington D.C.) (Source: The Wall Street Journal).

 

Percent of California residents who support full legalization of marijuana:  56 (Source: The Wall Street Journal).

 

Number of state-prison inmates who will be released because of overcrowding:  43,000 (Source: The Wall Street Journal).

 

Percent of state-prison inmates who are incarcerated for drug offenses:  17 (Source: The Wall Street Journal).

 

Percent of cannabis currently consumed in Britain that is homegrown:  60 (Source: Cannabis News).

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