# How "Big" is Marijuana?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-big-is-marijuana/174695>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 12, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-big-is-marijuana/174695 "2003-05-12T13:52:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-big-is-marijuana/174695/21 "2003-05-13T15:00:42Z")

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…dairy (1.3) and beef (1.2) and ahead of hogs (958 million), in the AgBusiness sector. But that’s just a police estimate that from the article sounded like it was based on an expectation of a very high work ethic.

Somehow I can’t link to where I got this (attempting to contributed to this post’s interruption)

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**Author:** ![whatami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/85f322/32.png) [@whatami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatami)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-big-is-marijuana/174695/22 "2003-05-13T16:34:55Z")

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This may or may not have a bearing on this question, however…

Last summer, during one of the worst forest fires in Oregon history, fireman found many fields of mj. This area of Oregon in renowned for its quality (according to articles) of mj and sells at a higher rate than much of the imported stuff.

[Link](http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread13604.shtml) (note…biased news source)

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> Some of the world’s highest-grade marijuana, its pedigree sometimes compared to Cuba’s cigars, is grown in the Siskiyou National Forest and the Kalmiopsis Wilderness, where the Florence and Sour Biscuit fires have consumed about 183,000 acres of steep forest and rock-studded canyons.

[From the Oregonian](http://www.oregonlive.com/search/oregonian/) (note - search marijuana forest fire and you get the first paragraph, the rest you have to pay for, but it says what it needs to.)

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> At least some of the vegetation that has made Southwest Oregon famous – and long ago took a generation of hippie kids off welfare – also is going up in smoke.
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> Some of the world’s highest-grade marijuana, its pedigree sometimes compared to Cuba’s cigars, is grown in the Siskiyou National Forest and the Kalmiopsis Wilderness,

On preview, the articles are almost identical…:dubious:

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**Author:** ![musicguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@musicguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/musicguy)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-big-is-marijuana/174695/23 "2003-05-13T19:13:20Z")

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Those must have been some hungry firefighters 😉

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-big-is-marijuana/174695/24 "2003-05-13T23:16:27Z")

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> That is why the government has the cartons, and boxes already produced for when legalization takes place.

Even granting, for the sake of discussion, that legalization is imminent, why would the _government_ be producing cartons and the like? I mean, I could see if, say, Phillip Morris were making preparations, since they’re likely to be moving in to the new market, should it open up. But I can’t see why the Guv would be packaging and selling pot, when they don’t bottle beer or pack cigarettes.

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