As Americans drink less alcohol, these 3 'vice' stocks could soar

An employee tends to medical cannabis plants at Pharmocann, an Israeli medical cannabis company.

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• The US surgeon general recently warned that alcohol increases the risk of cancer.
• It could be another push as Americans shift away from alcohol.
• Traditional alcohol producers are pivoting to cannabis, says the portfolio manager Dan Ahrens.

It's looking like Dry January may no longer be a New Year's resolution confined to a single month.

Even before the US surgeon general...