It’s a historic day in Alaska. On Tuesday, February 25, the 49th state to enter the union becomes the 3rd to legalize recreational marijuana use.

Alaska follows Washington and Colorado, which lifted their marijuana prohibitions in 2012, as well as Oregon and Washington D.C. (currently it’s illegal to purchase the recreational variety in the capital but possession and growth is OK) to give the proverbial green light to toking up.

The legislation, approved via ballot measure, allows “adults 21 and older to possess up to an ounce of pot and up to six plants” according to the Associated Press. “Regulations for the sale of the drug till must be hammered out.”

So while it’s kosher to have and grow marijuana within certain constraints, pretty much everything else – the purchase, sale, smoking in public, etc., of marijuana is still illegal.

Smoking weed in public is punishable by a fine of $100.

“Until existing criminal statutes are changed – which the Alaska Legislature is working on – any conduct not specifically made legal in the initiative remains illegal, for now,” writes the Anchorage Daily News.

In Massachusetts, the state is still determining which medicinal marijuana dispensary applicants will be allowed to open their doors. Medicinal marijuana was also approved by ballot initiative in the Commonwealth, though that was in 2012 – when the aforementioned states began laying the groundwork for recreational.

The first approved medical marijuana dispensary in Massachusetts is expected to open in Salem this spring.