Weed is now legal in Colorado (for now).
Say you take a pretty regular toke now and then. In Colorado, “you can expect to spend around $650 on weed next year”.
Pretty expensive for something you can grow in your backyard. Could you imagine spending that much on tomatoes per year…even if you were raised in a traditional Italian household?
This puts weed at about $185/oz, which is pretty damn expensive.
As of early April, an ounce of marijuana was averaging $206 on the black market, and because the price is expected to drop once pot is legal, the study landed on $185. If the smoker is opting for higher-quality, $300-per-oz. marijuana, his annual pot bill would top $1,000. That’s for someone smoking the average of 3.53 oz. per year. A heavy smoker who goes with $300-per-oz. pot and uses, say, half an ounce monthly could expect to drop $1,800 annually on his habit.
That’s not a cheap habit. How much is a pack of cigs…$5? If you smoked a pack a day, that’s about $1,825 per year.
How about smoke nothing, save money? Why hasn’t that been a government campaign yet?
