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© Getty Images Nine years ago, voters in Colorado and Washington became the first to approve recreational marijuana, over the objections of top Democrats in those states. This week, legislators in Democratic-led New York and New Mexico struck deals that will make them the 16th and 17th states to legalize pot. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham Supporters of legalized recreational marijuana once found it impossible to win support from a legislator willing to stake their career on legalized drug use. Now, measures that were once untouchable are winning bipartisan support. ADVERTISEMENT In a polarized nation, there are few issues on which both the public and their elected leaders have shifted as much as on the question of recreational marijuana. As recently as the Clinton administration, only a quarter of voters backed legal marijuana. Today, more than two-thirds do.

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