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A year ago, Oklahoma voted overwhelmingly to legalize medical marijuana for licensed patients and to make possession of small amounts of marijuana a modest misdemeanor for just about anyone smart enough to say “glaucoma” to a police officer.

The state’s political gurus were stunned when State Question 788 passed with nearly 57% of the vote. Thousands of new voters came to the polls, skewing all sorts of results and sending state drug policy into a brave new world.

Since then, the opponents of medical marijuana have tried a number of legislative and bureaucratic tricks to undermine the will of those voters. Any politician who would meddle with the expressed will of the people must do so with a bad sense of fair play, politics and mathematics.

Here is another statistic for them to ignore: Nearly 140,000 patients have registered to purchase marijuana legally as of June 17. That’s about 3.5% of the state’s population and far more than anyone expected in the first year.