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Legal Weed Sales to Reach $6.7B in 2016

MARY JANE

A 25% leap from 2015.

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Steve Dipaola/Reuters

A new report by ArcView Market Research found legal U.S. cannabis sales will likely grow 25 percent this year, $6.7 billion nationwide, up from $5.4 billion in 2015. This growth follows the first American legal recreational dispensaries opening in Colorado only two years ago. ArcView projects that the legal pot market will show a compounded yearly growth rate of nearly 30 percent over the next few years.

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