North Americans Spent $53.3 Billion On Marijuana Last Year, Most Of It Illegally

The first-of-its-kind analysis, gathered by ArcView Market Research, spans legal, medical and bootleg pot markets opposite both a United States and Canada. At around $46 billion, a bootleg marketplace constituted 87 percent of pot sales in 2016 (a diminution from 90 percent in 2015), dwarfing both medical and authorised sales.

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