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Since then, 18 other states as well as the District of Columbia have followed suit by passing legislation for recreational distribution and consumption.
Classified as a Schedule I drug by the Controlled Substance Act, the same as methamphetamine or cocaine, cannabis is still illegal at the federal level.
Sentencing Commission’s 2021 Sourcebook, in 2012, the same year Colorado and Washington first passed their legislation, there were roughly 7,000 offenders charged with cannabis trafficking by federal prosecutors.
As more states continued to pass legislation to legalize recreational cannabis, the number of federal trafficking charges began to drop year-after-year.
From 2012 to 2021, while total drug trafficking charges have decreased by 31%, cannabis-related charges dropped 86%.
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