Big Tobacco's Pot of Gold
As fewer people smoke cigarettes, cannabis should be the new frontier.
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Wine, chocolate -- pot.
If the estimated $45 billion or so of yearly demand for recreational marijuana is in the right ballpark, then more Americans crave cannabis than cabernet or candy bars. And as legalization efforts pull marijuana sales out of the shadows of the black market, an industry is, er, budding.