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Colorado saw the first legal sales of
recreational marijuana on Jan. 1, as 37 new
dispensaries around the state opened their
doors. According to a HuffPost calculation,
first-week sales totaled roughly $5 million.
In an email to supporters, Rep. Diana
DeGette (D-Colo.) noted, “Across the state,
recreational marijuana was sold for the first time. And guess what? The world didn’t end.”
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) spent more than two
hours on Thursday apologizing over revelations that his staff
purposefully caused a traffic jam on the George Washington
Bridge in order to punish a local mayor who did not endorse
the governor’s reelection bid. Christie, a possible presidential
contender for 2016, maintained he knew nothing of the
plan, which caused major traffic jams for four days on the
nation’s busiest bridge. The governor dismissed his deputy
chief of staff and cut ties with another key member of his
inner circle over the scandal, and the U.S. attorney for New
Jersey has opened a probe into the incident.
Utah’s governor on Wednesday announced
the state will not recognize the more than
1,000 same-sex marriages that have been
performed since a federal judge ruled in
December that gay and lesbian couples
have a constitutional right to wed. The
Supreme Court officially halted same-sex
marriages in Utah on Monday, pending
an appeal of the judge’s decision. The
governor’s announcement means the
newlywed couples in Utah are in legal limbo and cannot currently file joint state tax
returns, add spouses to insurance or adopt children.