Leading into the 2016 Election Night, half of the nation had medical marijuana laws in place.

After Tuesday, among the four states to join those ranks was Arkansas, the first in the Bible Belt to adopt a medical marijuana law.

 

“Honestly, it’s surprising, but maybe not as surprising as you’d think,” says Taylor West, deputy director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, a Washington, D.C.-based trade group and lobbyist. “When you look at polls around medical marijuana, it now polls close to 90 percent. This is almost as close to a consensus issue as we get these days. And you don’t get to 90 percent without some Bible Belters.”

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