The US Passes One Million Medical Marijuana Patients

16.06.2011

With there now being over 3500 patients approved for Arizona Medical Marijuana ID Cards. The overall total in the US for registered legal medical marijuana patients now stands at over 1 million.

If you have over one million people utilizing one half to one gram daily of medical marijuana with an average price of $320 an ounce, the income totals between two and six billion dollars per year. The sixteen legal states plus DC comprise over twenty five percent of the US, so a complete US legalization medicinally would total over $10 billion annually.

Some states have medical marijuana dispensaries, and most allow legal patients to grow their own marijuana up to a certain number of plants. Factoring both of these sources together, somewhere between 550,000 and 800,000 pounds of legal marijuana are allowed under US law.

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 some interesting tidbits.

  • * In the sixteen states with legal medical marijuana, there are over 90 million US folks (including DC), which represents somewhere around 28% of the US population
  • Patients make up over 3% of Montana, 2.5% of Colorado, and 2% of California. Oregon is slightly over 1%. Phoenix Medical Marijuana Doctors got started this year.
  • * 6 states including MT, WA, CA, CO, OR, and MI total 98% of the US legal patients.
  • * Except for Maine, monthly marijuana use among teens is down in every medical marijuana state
  • Incidents of work place accidents and work injuries have been reduced in every medical marijuana state.
  • Annual highway fatalities are down in every medical marijuana state except for RI.

The great news is that more and more states each year are legalizing medical marijuana to help debilitated patients alleviate suffering, such as Arizona Medical Marijuana. It is now a great option for quite a few disease conditions and symptoms where traditional prescription medications are either inadequate or intolerable.

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