Weed will soon clobber beer sales, Wall Street says
I find it hard to believe that Americans like their weed this much. Smoking tobacco - gateway drug to smoking weed - is not the thing people do these days, unlike in past times when &#x27;everyone&#x27; smoked. If smoking is not recreational&#x2F;sociable, how do people start with weed in the USA? Is it just for kids?<p>Then there are all those meth epidemics and cocaine users and prescription opiates making the USA &#x27;fun&#x27;. For kids that have gone straight to heroin from prescription drugs, what is the attraction of weed? It would be like an alcoholic going for a lemonade shandy rather than another bottle of wine&#x2F;spirits&#x2F;cider&#x2F;super-strength beer.<p>I thought weed was going the way of interesting trippy drugs - LSD, mushrooms - that exist but people don&#x27;t go crazy for. Nowadays the disease of addiction has better outlets in U.S.A. and the social aspect of smoking is gone, so who smokes pot in the USA these days apart from those with medical reasons to do so?