“Support the American Farmer –  buy weed”:

U.S. growers produce nearly $35 billion worth of marijuana annually, making the illegal drug the country’s largest cash crop, bigger than corn and wheat combined, an advocate of medical marijuana use said in a study released on Monday.

The report, conducted by Jon Gettman, a public policy analyst and former head of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, also concluded that five U.S. states produce more than $1 billion worth of marijuana apiece: California, Tennessee, Kentucky, Hawaii and Washington.

California’s production alone was about $13.8 billion, according to Gettman, who waged an unsuccessful six-year legal battle to force the government to remove marijuana from a list of drugs deemed to have no medical value.

…and that’s with the government deliberately trying to sabotage the entire industry, from growing to distribution to retail.

I dunno which that says more about, the popularity of marijuana despite its illogical legal status here, or the relative futility of US agribusiness in “traditional” crops despite subsidies out the wazoo.