With Alaska legalization vote, marijuana won 4-1 on Tuesday

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last updated 8 January 2015

With about 95 percent of precincts reporting, Alaska's ballot proposition to legalize marijuana appears headed for a solid 52-48 percent win. Assuming those numbers hold up, Alaska joins Oregon and Washington, D.C., in approving recreational use of marijuana this election. Guam, a U.S. territory, also approved a ballot measure to allow medical marijuana. Florida was the only outlier, sort of: More than half of voters approved a proposal to permit medical marijuana in the Sunshine State, but they needed 60 percent.

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.

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