As Mr. Popper reports, legal marijuana sales are expected to hit $6.5 billion this year, a 35 percent increase from 2015. It’s a sensible move, considering how widespread the legal marijuana industry has become in the past few years and how rapidly it is growing. Voters there said yes to legal marijuana in 2012, and the first store opened in 2014. Of course, legal marijuana is very much a vice of its time, too, with high-tech features. Even before November’s vote on fully legalizing marijuana in California, there are meet-ups for budding (forgive me) marijuana start-ups involved in branding, delivery systems and cookbooks.

Source: New York Times June 17, 2016 13:18 UTC