With Arizona Medical Marijuana ID Card patients now numbering over 3500, the total US registered legal medical marijuana patient number now stands over one million.
With more than one million individuals using 1/2 to 1 gram each day of medical marijuana bringing an average sales price of $320 an ounce, the revenue equals between $2 and $6 billion dollars each year. The 17 legal jurisdictions add up to over 25% of the US population, so if medical marijuana was legal throughout the US the sales revenue could be over 10 billion dollars per year.
Some states simply allow medical marijuana patients to grow their own herb, while others have full fledged dispensaries. Adding both of these together, somewhere between 550,000 and 800,000 pounds of medical marijuana are allowed in the US legally.
It is amazing to see that after one million patients and all this time, the dire predictions that were put forth by medical marijuana opponents never turned out to be true. In virtually all medical marijuana states, workplace accident and injuries have gone down, and quite a few states are seeing their lowest fatal crash rates in many years.
Here are numerous facts regarding medical marijuana.
* In the 16 states plus DC with legal medicinal marijuana, there are over ninety million US individuals (somewhere between twenty five to thirty percent of the US population)
* Patients comprise over three percent of Montana, two and one half percent of Colorado, and two percent of California. Oregon is slightly over one percent.
* 6 states including WA, CA, OR, CO, MT, and MI encompass ninety eight percent of the US patients overall.
* Except for Maine, monthly marijuana use among teens is down in every medical marijuana state
* Incidents of work injury and work place accidents have been decreased in all medical marijuana states.
* Annual highway fatalities are down in every medical marijuana state except for RI.
The good news is that more and more states annually are approving legal medical marijuana to assist debilitated patients alleviate suffering. It represents a great option for numerous disease conditions and symptoms where traditional medications are either inadequate or intolerable.
Learn more about Arizona Medical Marijuana. Stop by Arizona MMC's site where you can find out all about obtaining anArizona Medical Marijuana Card and what it can do for you.