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Americans spent $5.4 billion on legal medical and recreational marijuana last year, according to new estimates from ArcView Market Research and New Frontier Data, two marijuana industry market research groups.
The total includes over $1 billion in medical marijuana sales in California, nearly $1 billion in legal marijuana sales in Colorado, and more than a half-billion dollars in sales in Washington state.
To put that $5.4 billion number in perspective, that's more money than Americans spent on Doritos, Cheetos and Funyuns combined in 2015, according to market research firm Euromonitor.
With $5.4 billion, you can get America legally stoned for a year. Or you could have used the money to send the New Horizons probe to Pluto, the Curiosity rover to Mars, and had enough money left over to purchase the entire output of the Cheescake Factory for a year.
Keep in mind that $5.4 billion represents only legal marijuana sales. Illegal sales...
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