First and foremost were the referenda on marijuana legalization in the US states of Colorado and Washington on November 6. For the first time, voters in the country that is the world’s largest consumer of illicit drugs in general, and marijuana in particular, approved propositions legalizing possession, production, and distribution of cannabis – and by relatively broad margins.
首先也是最重要的变化时美国科罗拉多州和华盛顿州在11月6日的大麻合法化公投。美国公民——世界最大非法药物使用群体，尤其是大麻——以绝对优势投票批准了规定拥有、生产和销售大麻行为合法的草案。