class=p1On Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2012, voters in both Colorado and Washington approved ballot measures that leglize marijuana for recreational use for adults in each state. The first recreational marijuana shops opened in both states in 2014. The United States government took a historic step back from its long running drug war in August, when Attorney General Eric Holder informed the governors of Washington and Colorado that the Department of Justice would allow the states to create a regime that would regulate and implement the ballot initiatives that legalized the use of marijuana for adults. - The Huffington Post amp;nbsp;
