Prank website claims Virginia or Alabama have legalized marijuana

A prank website is tricking social media users into believing marijuana has been legalised in either Virginia or Alabama.

React365.com is a notorious prank website where users get to post their own pranks (translated this usually means fake news articles) which time out after a day or so. Prankster have been using the same article to claim that marijuana has been legalised in either Alabama or Virginia, depending on the variant of the prank you happen to stumble upon.

Govenor Terry McAuliffe passed a law legalizing the use of recreational and medicinal marijuana for the state of Virginia
As of November, first 2017 marijuana will be legal
Overall support for legalize marijuana has hit 64 30 states in the district of Columbia currently have laws broadly legalizing marijuana
I knew Gallup poll released earlier this month shows that a record high percentage of Americans now support legalizing marijuana
For the first time immaturity of Republicans are in favor of legalizing marijuana as well
Update coming soon

Of course the stories are not meant to be taken seriously. If you’re using a website called React365.com to get your news, then you may need to rethink your news-gathering protocols, because this isn’t a site you should be trusting or sharing as a real news outlet.

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