ONDCP estimated the annual mj consumption in the US to be just over a thousand metric tons. It seems to me that either consumption estimates are way too low, or production figures are way too high, or there is a massive glut.
--briancbennett.com/charts/fed-data/consumption.htm
The consumption estimate was for the year 2000.
Yes, those old consumption estimates were way too low. Law enforcement seize way more every year than they said Americans consume, and you know law enforcement aren’t getting anywhere near two thirds or more of the pot on the market. I bet they’re probably only getting ten or twenty percent. At about the same time as those consumption estimates came out supply estimates came out where a different government agency claimed that the supply of marijuana available on the market here was between 12,000 and 25,000 metric tons per year, which is a little more than that consumption estimate of just over a 1000 metric tons per year. I think they must just make some of this crap up.