<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> Cannabis in California is permitted, subject to regulations, for both medical and recreational use . In recent decades the state has led the country in efforts to legalize cannabis, holding the first (unsuccessful) vote to decriminalize it in 1972 and, through Proposition 215, becoming the first state to legalize it for medical use in 1996 . In the November 2016 election, voters passed an amendment legalizing recreational use of marijuana . </P> <P> Industrial hemp was first grown in what is now known as California as early as 1801 in what is now San Jose, with the state producing 13,000 pounds in 1807, and 220,000 pounds in 1810 . </P>

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