NORML: At Least 1 – 1.5 Million Americans are Legal Medical Marijuana Patients

At Least 1 – 1.5 Million Americans are Legal Medical Marijuana Patients

Market for these patients in sixteen states and D.C. estimated at between $2 – $6 billion annually

MAY 31, 2011 - We don’t know his or her name, but somewhere in one of sixteen states and the District of Columbia is America’s 1,000,000th legal medical marijuana patient. We estimate the United States reached the million-patients mark sometime between the beginning of the year to when Arizona began issuing patient registry identification cards online in April 2011.


16 states, the Capitol, and ONE MILLION legal marijuana users.
http://dailydish.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e201538ed83f9d970b-550wi
Between one to one-and-a-half million people are legally authorized by their state to use marijuana in the United States, according to data compiled by NORML from state medical marijuana registries and patient estimates. Assuming usage of one-half to one gram of cannabis medicine per day per patient and an average retail price of $320 per ounce, these legal consumers represent a $2.3 to $6.2 billion dollar market annually.

Based on state medical marijuana laws, the amounts of cannabis these legal marijuana users are entitled to possess means there is between 566 – 803 thousand pounds of legal usable cannabis allowed under state law in America. These patients are allowed to cultivate between 17 – 24 million legal cannabis plants. There may possibly be more, as California and New Mexico “limits” may be exceeded with doctor’s permission and some California counties explicitly allow greater amounts, so there may be as much as 1 million pounds of state-legal cannabis allowed under state law


much more:
http://blog.norml.org/2011/05/31/americas-one-million-legalized-marijuana-users/

it's time to end drug prohibition.

I just wish it didn't cost $100 to get the license.

Doc eval is only $60

Obama and his appointee, Holder, are doing all in their power to suppress the use and availability of medical marijuana. Another broken promise from "Yes, we can, but no, we won't."