LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) — You can’t legally get your hands on marijuana in Nebraska right now, but the state’s neighbors to the west and east have it legal recreationally.

In 2012, Colorado moved to legalized recreational marijuana statewide, becoming the first state in the nation to try it.

Since then, Dr. Shawn Swanson, an economist and researcher with CU Boulder, has been keeping an eye on how it has changed the state.

“I’m pretty agnostic. Right? I live here in Colorado. I just wanna figure out what’s really going on,” Swanson told 10/11 News.

Colorado voters legalized the drug through a ballot initiative, similar to Nebraska. At the time, arguments against the drug being legalized echoed some current sentiments in our state legislature.

Swanson says both proponents and opponents got

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