Americans are buying more legal pot than Oreos, Girl Scout cookies, and Pringles combined

[n2doc]

One of the benefits of marijuana legalization is the rise of a new, multibillion-dollar industry that provides legal jobs to thousands of taxpaying workers. This is one of the main reasons advocates have used to get legalization enacted in Colorado, Washington state, Oregon, and Alaska.

But how big is that industry, really? A new chart from Statista puts it in context: US purchases of legal marijuana in 2015, counting retail sales in states where marijuana is legal for medical or recreational purposes, were bigger than Dasani, Girl Scout cookies, Oreos, and Pringles sales combined in 2014.

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http://www.vox.com/2016/3/30/11327344/marijuana-girl-scouts-cookies

[stonecutter357]

1. K&R!

[astrophuss42]

2. Another reason I am pro Bernie

This one state at a time thing isn't working.

[n2doc]

5. Yeah, living here in Georgia I am jealous of the West. n/t

[B Calm]

14. Feeling the Bern here too. We have traveled too far to vote for a person

who will slow down marijuana legalization.

[Merryland]

3. wow - thanks! n/t

[Mister Ed]

4. Which will, in turn, stimulate sales of Oreos, Girl Scout cookies, and Pringles.

[blackspade]

6. It should be legal nationwide.

But asshole drug warriors have too sweet a deal to let it happen.

[awoke_in_2003]

12. And don't forget the PIC. nt

[blackspade]

15. They are the same people!

[awoke_in_2003]

16. I'm sorry, I meant

Prison Industrial Complex, not pharmaceutical. Both are bad, and unlikely allies.

[blackspade]

17. I understood the PIC acronym.

I meant there is a revolving door between the drug warriors and the prison industry.

At any rate we are on the same page.
The PIC and and drug warriors suck and are only in it for a buck and to dis-enfranchise POC and the counterculture.

[awoke_in_2003]

18. Ah, gotcha

I figured we were on the same page.

[blackspade]

19. Indeed!

[mountain grammy]

7. Make it legal nationally.. and let the states regulate.

like alcohol. Maybe that's why our alcohol pushing governor bashes legal pot every chance he gets..

Colorado Now Reaping More Tax Revenue From Pot Than From Alcohol

http://www.forbes.com/sites/debraborchardt/2015/09/16/colorados-pot-tax-revenues-are-higher-than-alcohols/#384a3f26716b

[pscot]

8. This will change

when girl scouts start selling blueberry bliss bars.

[nichomachus]

9. I haven't bought Girl Scout cookies in years

I bought a box a few weeks ago, and they were horrible. I don't know what they did to them. I ended up throwing them out.

But I do like my chocolate covered marijuana blueberries from the pharmacy.

[marble falls]

10. And because that's true, sales of Girl Scout cookies and Pringles are shooting through the roof.

[Cyrano]

11. Yep. The measurment of a sane country.

[hibbing]

13. Well if Pringles cost $15-20 a gram....n/t

[RussBLib]

20. I feel like we're right on the verge of some real sanity re weed

...but then I remember that we have a whole political party called the GOP that just wants to destroy everything and keep everyone in jail.

Generalizing?

[eridani]

21. Actually Girl Scout Cookies is a strain of pot n/t

[hobbit709]

22. yep.