This year's election season was historic in more ways than one. An unprecedented nine states considered liberalizing cannabis laws, and here's how it broke down: California, Massachusetts and Nevada saw their ballot measures pass. If Maine's ballot measure is also approved, that would bring the total number of states with legal adult-use cannabis laws up to eight. Arizona's ballot measure failed to pass.
The first words anyone spoke to me once the election results came in were "What went wrong?" To which I replied, "I was tired and had trouble tying my tie. I'll fix it before I get to class." Far from being sartorially flippant, the point I was making was this: Nothing went "wrong." The polls worked like they were supposed to work. If there was a problem, it was in how they were used – and the fact that we all forgot they deal in probabilities and not certainties.
