And soy is no slouch.Corn will certainly retain the title for the foreseeable future, but new research from Leafly concludes that legal weed is nearing the top of the crops, coming in as the country’s fifth most valuable harvest.
“Analyses purporting to support the claim,” they wrote, “must contort the numbers, citing the retail price of marijuana but the farm-gate price of other products, or pretending that all marijuana consumed in the United States in sinsemilla, or ignoring the fact that most marijuana used in the United States is imported, or simply starting with implausible estimates of U.S.
Maybe the most remarkable stat Leafly shared, though, is the fact that there are now more than 13,000 pot farms in the United States.
At that point, the value of the cannabis crop will become just as reliably measurable as the value of the tomato crop.