Yes, it is. A report into illicit marijuana cultivation in the US says it is now the country's biggest cash crop, having seen a tenfold increase in production over the last 25 years.
DrugScience.org's Marijuana Production in the United States puts the annual harvest at 10,000 tonnes, worth a cool $35.8bn (£18.4bn). Corn, meanwhile, weighs in at a mere $23bn, with soybeans marking up $17.6bn and hay a paltry $12.2bn. Dope is apparently the "biggest cash crop in 12 states", injecting more into the Georgia economy than peanuts and blowing away tobacco in North and South Carolina,
Georgia's state crop is peanuts. They were selected as the state crop in 1995. Georgia accounts for 49 percent of the nations peanut crop acreage and production.
The number one cash crop in Tennessee right now is Marijuana. After that is Soybean and Hay.
The main cash crop in colonial Georgia was rice. It was considered a valuable crop for trade and export, leading to its widespread cultivation in the region.
Marijuana $4+Billion
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Tobacco and rice.
Washington's main cash corp was wheat
rice
Rice was the most profitable cash crop.
Marijuana, its the number one cash crop in the U.S.
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Corn, followed by soybeans, hay, apples, sugar beets and marijuana.