U.S. sales of legal recreational cannabis 2019-2026

In the United States, sales of legal recreational cannabis are expected to reach an estimated 42 billion U.S. dollars by 2026. Legal marijuana sales are forecast to increase steadily with each consecutive year.

Sales per state

The number of cannabis consumers is likewise expected to grow in the United States: by 2025, the country is projected to have close to 50 million consumers. In 2018, the state of California was by far the leading American state in terms of legal, as well as illicit cannabis sales. The market for recreational marijuana in California amounted to some five and a half billion U.S. dollars in 2018. This was more than double the market size of New York. By 2024, the recreational cannabis market in California is forecast to reach 7.2 billion dollars.

Opinions on legalization

In 2020, more than two-thirds of adult Americans believed cannabis should be made legal in the United States. Over the past decades, public support for the legalization of the soft drug has increased significantly. In 2003, only about a third of Americans were in favor of legalization, while more than 60 percent of the population was against it.