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This graph shows the number of legal medical marijuana patients in the United States, by state, as of August 2017. It was estimated that California had the highest number of legal medical marijuana patients with some 1.53 million.

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This graph shows the number of legal medical marijuana patients in the United States, by state, as of August 2017. It was estimated that California had the highest number of legal medical marijuana patients with some 1.53 million.

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Release date: August 2017

Region: United States
Survey time period: as of August 2017
Supplementary notes: Registries not open in: Arkansas, Florida, Maryland, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia.
* This is a rough estimate based on Maine’s numbers. There is a registry, but only a small fraction of California patients are registered.
** Many families have migrated to Colorado so that patients would be allowed to use medical marijuana, which increases the per capita number of patients.
*** Washington has a brand new patient registry. The first day for registrations was July 1, 2016.

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