By the Numbers: 23 March 2020
$150 billion
The amount that drug users in the United States spent on cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine in 2016, according to a new study from the RAND Corporation, What America's Users Spend on Illegal Drugs, 2006–2016.
The marijuana market is roughly the size of the cocaine and methamphetamine markets combined, and the size of the retail heroin market is now closer to the size of the marijuana market than it is to the other drugs.
$150 billion
The amount that drug users in the United States spent on cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine in 2016, according to a new study from the RAND Corporation, What America's Users Spend on Illegal Drugs, 2006–2016.
The marijuana market is roughly the size of the cocaine and methamphetamine markets combined, and the size of the retail heroin market is now closer to the size of the marijuana market than it is to the other drugs.