Marijuana sales in the United States reached a record high in 2015. Legal in Alaska,
Colorado, Oregon, Washington, and the District of Columbia, a whopping
$3.4 billion of the green stuff was sold last year. The best way to give
that figure some kind of perspective is by comparing it to the sales
of well-known and established brands.
Take Oreo for example, a cookie loved by millions of Americans.
Between April 2014 and April 2015, its sales amounted to $711 million.
Weed sales were five times higher than that. Dasani brand bottled water
recorded impressive sales figures of $1.02 billion between May 2014 and
2015 but legal marijuana sales were still about three times higher last
year. In 2016, America’s legal marijuana sales are expected to be even
higher, somewhere in the region of $3.5 billion to $4.3 billion.
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