Not exact matches
While medical
marijuana has been legal in California for two decades — accounting for roughly $ 2 billion in
annual sales — state residents must wait until January 2018 before they are able to legally buy
marijuana in California without a doctor's approval.
The legal
marijuana industry could generate roughly $ 22 billion in
annual sales across the US within four years.
On Tuesday, a joint release from New Frontier and ArcView projected that California's legal
marijuana market could reach $ 7.6 billion in
annual sales by 2020 alone.
Across 23 states and Washington, D.C., recreational and medical
sales have surpassed $ 5.4 billion in 2015, up from $ 4.6 billion the year before, according the fourth
annual State of Legal
Marijuana Markets report.
FILE PHOTO: Various - sized joints for
sale are pictured at the
annual 4/20
marijuana event at Sunset Beach in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on April 20, 2017.