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Table 3 Total market size estimates (95% CIs) for marijuana flower quantity and expenditure and for other marijuana product expenditure for Washington state from 2014 to 2016

From: Characteristics of the Washington cannabis market from 2014 to 2016

 

2014

2015

2016

Total marijuana flower purchased (metric tons)a

158 (106, 209)

148 (93, 204)

222 (58, 387)

- For daily/nearly daily (DND) users

130 (82, 179)

133 (79, 187)

203 (39, 367)

- Dor non-DND users

27.0 (10.3, 43.7)

15.1 (7.9, 22.2)

19.3 (12.1, 26.5)

Total expenditure on marijuana flower (billion $)a

1.23 (0.87, 1.59)

1.29 (0.83, 1.75)

1.70 (0.47, 2.93)

- For DND users

0.97 (0.65, 1.28)

1.15 (0.70, 1.60)

1.52 (0.29, 2.74)

- For non-DND users

0.26 (0.10, 0.43)

0.14 (0.08, 0.20)

0.18 (0.12, 0.25)

$ per gram of usual marijuana flower a

$7.81

$8.68

$7.65

- For DND users

$7.41

$8.61

$7.48

- For non-DND users

$9.77

$9.35

$9.53

Total expenditure other marijuana products (billion $)b

0.44 (0.09, 0.80)

0.39 (0.17, 0.60)

0.33 (0.17, 0.49)

- For DND users

0.41 (0.05, 0.76)

0.35 (0.14, 0.57)

0.22 (0.07, 0.38)

- For non-DND users

0.04 (0.02, 0.05)

0.03 (0.01, 0.06)

0.10 (0.06, 0.15)

  1. aFor PY marijuana flower purchasers (n = 710). Among them, 16 respondents reported neither valid usual quantity nor valid expenditure and the measures were imputed using sample median
  2. bFor PY purchasers of other marijuana product (n = 391). Among them, 49 respondents whose expenditure on other marijuana products were missing and the measure was imputed using sample median