The piecemeal approach to legalization has created many conflicts with federal laws, but now that a majority of states have some type of marijuana legalization, the plant has become a major source of legitimate economic activity nationwide. We could find no state legislative races in which voting in favor of a medical marijuana bill was detrimental. Only two state senates flipped party control after blog here legalization—New York and Minnesota—but in both the medical marijuana vote had been overwhelmingly in favor and bipartisan. Only two state lower chambers flipped party control as well—Minnesota and New Hampshire—but in neither state was marijuana a major campaign issue. Not a single Governor in any of these ten states lost a reelection campaign because he or she signed a medical marijuana bill into law—in fact, only one Governor lost their reelection at all (Democrat Pat Quinn of Illinois), and it was to an opponent who did not oppose medical marijuana legalization.