On Monday, California officially became America's — and the world's — largest legal market for cannabis sales. The New Year's Day launch was historic, but for most of the state's residents, it was a relatively normal first day of the year.
On January 1, legal sales of recreational cannabis began in California. Thousands of people waited in line, many of them overnight, to be of the first to purchase legal weed through a dispensary.
The report, "Medical Marijuana Access in the United States," was released by Americans For Safe Access, a 15-year-old organization whose mission is to "ensure safe and legal access to cannabis for therapeutic use and research."
Consumer spending on legal cannabis in North America is outpacing previous estimates, according to a report released this week by Arcview Market Research.