Americans are buying more bud than Thin Mints, Samoas, and Tagalongs combined.
The legal marijuana business in the US raked in between $3 billion and $3.4 billion in sales in 2015, according to the newly published 2016 Marijuana Business Factbook.
As Quartz's Ana Campoy points out, that means US consumers spent more money on medicinal and recreational weed last year than Girl Scout cookies, which saw $776 million in sales. Dispensaries also outsold e-cigarette companies, which sold $1.5 billion in 2015, according to Campoy.
The report, published by Marijuana Business Daily, says this is just the beginning for the budding pot industry.
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