1. Number of signatures gathered by San Jose medical pot activists to qualify a referendum on blocking the city’s draconian new dispensary ordinance: 49,000 (Source: San Jose Mercury News).
2. Number of signatures the activists needed to qualify the referendum for the ballot: 30,000 (Source: San Jose Mercury News).
3. Number of San Francisco cannabis dispensaries considered to be located too close to schools, according to recent federal announcement: 15 (Source: U.S. Department of Justice).
4. Percentage of San Francisco’s 26 cannabis dispensaries considered by federal authorities to be located too close to schools: 56 (Source: U.S. Department of Justice).
5. Estimated number of cannabis patients who would lose access to their medicine should the feds force the closures of 15 San Francisco dispensaries: 45,000 (Source: San Francisco Examiner).
6. Percentage of votes cast in favor of Proposition 215, California’s medical marijuana initiative, in 1996: 55.6 (Source: California Secretary of State).
7. Percentage of votes cast in favor of Measure 67, Oregon’s medical marijuana initiative, in 1998: 54.6 (Source: Oregon Secretary of State).
8. Percentage of votes cast in favor of Initiative 692, Washington’s medical marijuana initiative, in 1998: 59 (Source: Washington Secretary of State).
9. Percentage of votes cast in favor of Measure 8, Alaska’s medical marijuana initiative, in 1998: 58.7 (Source: Alaska Secretary of State).
10. Number of states and federal districts that protect patients from arrest for the medicinal use of cannabis: 17 (Source: NORML).
11. Number of states and federal districts that allow patients to grow their own cannabis: 13 (Source: NORML).
12. Number of states in which voters rejected ballot measures that would have allowed the medicinal use of marijuana: 1 (Source: South Dakota Secretary of State).
13. Percentage of South Dakota residents who voted against Measure 13, which would have provided legal protections to medical marijuana patients, in 2010: 63.3 (Source: South Dakota Secretary of State).
14. Number of marijuana arrests in the U.S. since 1970: 21.5 million (Source: FBI Uniform Crime reports).
15. Total population of Australia in 2010: 21.5 million (Source: Wikipedia).
