By the Numbers

Total cash contributions (in dollars) Progressive Insurance executive Peter Lewis has donated to the Amendment 64 legalization measure: 876,000 (Source: Associated Press).

Estimated budget windfall (in dollars) for Colorado should voters pass Amendment 64 this November: 60 million (Source: Colorado Center on Law & Policy study).

Estimated annual tax revenue (in dollars) for Colorado school construction should voters pass Amendment 64 in November: 5 million to 22 million (Source: Colorado Legislative Council).

Estimated first-year cost (in dollars) to Colorado for implementing Amendment 64: 1.3 million (Source: Colorado Legislative Council).

Estimated annual revenue (in dollars) for Colorado should legislators pass an excise tax, as required under Amendment 64: 24 million to 73 million (Source: Yes on Amendment 64 campaign).

Current maximum jail sentence (in days) for possession of cannabis in Detroit: 365 (Source: Michigan Penal Code).

Maximum sentence (in years) for possession of cannabis in Detroit should voters there approve a decriminalization measure in November: 0 (Source: Michigan Secretary of State).

Minimum age for legally possessing cannabis in Detroit, under a proposed city measure on this November’s ballot: 21 (Source: Michigan Secretary of State).

Minimum age for legally possessing cannabis in Flint, under a proposed city measure on this November’s ballot: 19 (Source: Michigan Secretary of State).

Estimated number of medical cannabis activists to protest in September on the Capitol steps in Lansing against proposed anti-MMJ legislation: 200 (Source: LansingStateJournal.com).

Amount of money (in dollars) Harborside Health Center Executive Director Steve DeAngelo says the Oakland dispensary makes every year: 22 million (Source: The Huffington Post).

Percentage of Harborside Health Center’s annual earnings that DeAngelo says goes directly back into the community: 100 (Source: The Huffington Post).

Estimated number of regular patients of San Francisco’s Divinity Tree Patients Wellness Cooperative before it was shut down by the feds: 7,000 (Source: CNNMoney.com).

Estimated number of cannabis plants seized in Mendocino County during this summer’s federal eradication campaign: 23,000 (Source: U.S. Justice Department).

Percentage of plants seized in the U.S. during this summer’s federal eradication campaign that were from Mendocino County: 4.7 (Source: SF Weekly).

Number of voter signatures activists needed to collect to place a measure on the ballot that would repeal LA’s ban on dispensaries: 27,425 (Source: Los Angeles City Clerk’s office).

Number of signatures activists actually gathered to place on the ballot a measure that would repeal LA’s ban on dispensaries: 49,000 (Source: Los Angeles Times).

Cost (in dollars) to LA taxpayers for city officials to review the ban-repeal signatures: 60,000 to 250,000 (Source: LA City Clerk’s office).

Number of medical marijuana dispensaries LA city officials say operate in the city: 1,046 (Source: LA City Hall).

Actual number of medical marijuana dispensaries operating in the city of LA, according to a recent study: 472 (Source: UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs study).

Number of Starbucks locations in Seattle: 139 (Source: Seattle Times).

Estimated number of Seattle medical cannabis dispensaries in July: 145 (Source: Seattle Times).

Estimated number of Seattle dispensaries in September, following the federal assault on the medical cannabis industry: 117 (Source: Seattle Times).

Number of registered Democratic voters in Washington surveyed who say they plan to vote for the legalization measure I-502: 70 (Source: September SurveyUSA poll).

Number of registered Republican voters in Washington surveyed who say they plan to vote for I-502: 33 (Source: September SurveyUSA poll).

Number of dispensaries that would be allowed in Massachusetts should voters there approve Question 3 in November: 35 (Source: Telegram.com).

Number of Montana residents registered with the state as medical cannabis patients as of spring 2011: 30,000 (Source: New England Cable News).

Number of Montana residents registered with the state as medical cannabis providers as of spring 2011: 4,800 (Source: New England Cable News).

Maximum number of patients a Montana medical cannabis caregiver can have under state law passed last year: 3 (Source: Montana Department of Public Health).

Ratio of Americans older than 11 who admit to having used cannabis in the previous year: 1 in 10 (Source: Christian Science Monitor).

Number of Americans who admit to having used cannabis at least once in their lifetimes: 100 million (Source: Christian Science Monitor).

Number of U.S. citizens who have been cited or arrested since 1970 for violating marijuana law: 21 million (Source: Christian Science Monitor).

Number of hours in September that GOP vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan was on record as supporting cannabis legalization before he reversed his position: 18 (Source: Westword.com).