Up in Smoke: This Marijuana Stock Lost More Than Half Its Value Last Week

As a whole, marijuana stocks are on fire. Through about mid-July, the average marijuana stock was up over 300% on a trailing-12-month basis, albeit one stock with a 2,363% gain at the time had skewed the results. Even if this outlier were removed from the equation, the largest roughly one dozen weed stocks had jumped by nearly 150% over the trailing year.

Understanding the optimism behind marijuana stocks requires nothing more than examining the support for legal cannabis and legal sales growth figures.

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