Pot sales poised to outpace ice cream sales

Retail sales of medical and recreational marijuana in the United States are expected to reach $5 billion to $6 billion this year and surge to as high as $17 billion by 2021, according to new projections from Marijuana Business Daily.

Last year, sales of medical and recreational marijuana reached an estimated $4 billion to $4.5 billion — up about 30 percent from the previous year — and are expected to grow by about 33 percent this year, compared to 2016, according to the trade publication’s 2017 Marijuana Business Factbook.