"Arizona, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota legalized and will tax recreational marijuana for adults, joining 11 other states: Alaska, California, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont and Washington.

"The Kentucky Cannabis Freedom Coalition Director Patrick Dunegan said “The word ‘recreational’ needs to no longer be used,” Dunegan. “You do not hear them say ‘recreational drinking,’ you always hear ‘responsible drinking.’

“We are responsible adults. Doctors, lawyers, individual citizens are consuming this plant as we speak, and that money is going into the black market when it could go into our (state budget).”