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Missouri and Utah joined the list of states with legal medical marijuana after the success of ballot measures in the Nov. 6, 2018 election.

By passing a ballot proposal in the Nov. 6, 2018 election, Michigan became the 10th US state to legalize adult-use marijuana.

On Nov. 6, 2018, Florida voters passed Amendment 4 (64%-36%), automatically restoring the vote to people with prior felony convictions (other than murder and sex offenses) once they have served their terms of incarceration and completed all parole and probation.

Have you ever wondered: What do doctors say about drinking milk? Should flavored milk be served in schools? Or if there really is pus in milk? Learn about the pros and cons of these and more milk-related questions in our updated Top 10 resource.

Read the main arguments in the debate over whether euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide should be legal in the United States, with a look at issues ranging from medical perspectives to slippery slopes to legal rights.

The Netherlands was the first country to legalize gay marriage in 2001. Discover which 28 countries have since legalized the practice.

Did you know that over 50% of workers who earn the federal minimum wage or lower are over 25? Or that 63% are women? See these and many more stats in our updated background section.

Cannabis fees, possession limits, approved conditions, registration requirements, and other important information for each legal state from Alaska to West Virginia.

There were 572,537 gun deaths in the United States between 1999 and 2016, an average of 31,808 per year. Explore year-by-year data on firearm suicides, homicides, unintentional deaths, legal intervention deaths, and deaths of undetermined intent.

Firearms are the 12th leading cause of death overall in the United States, but didn’t show up in the CDC’s Top 20 list. Find out why and dig into the numbers.

Guns were the leading cause of suicides and homicides between 1999 and 2016, and the 16th leading cause of unintentional deaths. See the other leading causes in this updated resource.

Read quotes from
Ethan Zuckerman, Director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT
(Pro), Oxford researchers Samantha Bradshaw and Philip Howard
(Con), Pew Research Center (Pro), and actor/comedian Stephen Fry
(Con), among others.

Prison officials in Nebraska used fentanyl as part of a four-drug cocktail to carry out the death penalty, marking the first time the opioid was used for this purpose.

Read more about this controversial law on our historical timeline.

All 50 states and DC require vaccinations for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis; polio; measles and rubella (49 states and DC also require mumps vaccination); and the varicella (chickenpox) vaccination. Find which states require additional vaccinations in our updated resource.