Report: Californians Consume 16 Million Ounces of Pot a Year

Posted by Raymond on March 10, 2010

This humble Disinfonaut believes that the numbers on these sorts of reports are always too low.  I would imagine that the real amount is many, many times higher. From the Sacramento Bee:

So how much pot do Californians smoke?

According to a recent state board of equalization report prepared for the legislature, it’s 16 million ounces a year. That’s a little less than one-half an ounce for each resident in California, in case you’re counting every man, woman and child.

The analysis was prepared for legislation by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco), that seeks to legalize, tax and regulate marijuana for use by California adults 21 and over.

Some other findings:

• California is America’s top pot producing state, with an annual yield of 8.6 million pounds of weed valued at $13.8 billion. That’s more than one-third of the cultivation across the U.S.

[Read more at the Sacramento Bee]