Who'd Profit From Legal Marijuana?

March, 1980

Who'd Profit from Legal Marijuana?The Report out of Florida streaked across the wires, was ripped off and read on radio and played big on the TV evening news. The Drug Enforcement Administration said in late 1978 that marijuana is a 48-billion-dollar-a-year industry in the United States. Marijuana, said the DEA, is the third biggest business in the U. S. General Motors is first, Exxon is second, pot is third--far ahead of Ford, Mobil Oil, Texaco and Standard Oil. Bigger than Gulf Oil, Chrysler a...