21 guilty pleasures that are hurting your bank account

Smoking Marijuana

If you smoke pot, you’re not paying much less for the pleasure. More states are legalizing recreational marijuana — and the industry might currently be changing the economy — but that doesn’t mean it’s cheap.

In Colorado, an ounce of medium- to high-quality pot has an average price of $220. It’s about $10 more an ounce in California, where an ounce of top-quality marijuana in Los Angeles is about $310. (And that doesn’t include the munchies.) The average joint has about 0.01 ounces of marijuana, meaning each one cost somewhere between $2.20 and $3.10 at these rates.