Stoned in the city: NYC tops list of world marijuana consumptionBy Jesse O’Neill and Carl Campanile
August 3, 2023
The city that never sleeps apparently also takes a lot of weed naps.
New York consumes more cannabis than any other city in the world, according to the 2023 Cannabis Global Price Index, published by the group CFAH.
The study compared consumption and prices all over the world, both in locales where the plant is legal and where it remains criminalized.
Denizens of the five boroughs consume 62.3 metric tons of pot per year, a figure that translates to a staggering 62 million grams, or 6.9 grams a year consumed by the city’s average resident.
That’s enough to fill up more than one and a half 18-wheeler trucks, 300 small bathtubs or a backyard pool.
Even though New York’s licensed recreational vendors have been slow to open up shop, the city is awash in gray-market cannabis vendors, which had no doubt contributed to its leading numbers.
New Yorkers pay $12.5 a gram on average, which is $5.50 more than in Portland, the US’ cheapest cannabis city, but considerably less than in Washington, DC, where weed goes for an average of $19 per gram, according to the study.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/08/03/nyc-tops-list-of-world-marijuana-consumption/
