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Don't arrest, invest | What could marijuana decriminalization buy us? About $10.1 billion
The Prometheus Institute ^
| 4/20/2007
| Justin Hartfield
Posted on 04/20/2007 5:56:08 AM PDT by tang0r
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posted on
04/20/2007 5:56:10 AM PDT
by
tang0r
To: tang0r
Now, that's too much money to for the human brain to fully conceptualizeIt's even harder when you are stoned.
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posted on
04/20/2007 5:58:53 AM PDT
by
uptoolate
(If it sounds absurd, 51% chance it was sarcasm.)
To: tang0r
I’m having a lot of trouble choosing between the B-2’s and the aircraft carriers, although I’m leaning towards the carriers.
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posted on
04/20/2007 5:58:59 AM PDT
by
Former Proud Canadian
(How do I change my screen name after Harper's election?)
To: tang0r
More short term memory loss.
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posted on
04/20/2007 5:59:48 AM PDT
by
SouthTexas
(Man made global warming is a man made LIE!)
To: tang0r
Did they figure in the cost of drug rehab increased crime from dead heads etc?
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posted on
04/20/2007 6:02:09 AM PDT
by
bilhosty
(Rudy in '08, Jindal in '16)
To: tang0r
Never fly. too many politicians and cops are profiting from the “Bonus System” of drug money.
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posted on
04/20/2007 6:02:12 AM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(Attila the Hun... wasn't he a liberal?)
To: Seruzawa
"Never fly. too many politicians and cops are profiting from the Bonus System of drug money." That, and the fact that the so-called "war on drugs" enables the federal government to exert more and more influence and control of police activities down to the smallest local level.
The ugly truth is that the "war on drugs" isn't about keeping the public safe, or promoting health, or any other tired platitude -- it's about CONTROL, plain and simple.
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posted on
04/20/2007 6:04:41 AM PDT
by
Joe Brower
(Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
To: uptoolate
It's even harder when you are stoned.Someone who is stoned or impaired in some other form should only be prosecuted if they pose a threat to others. These prosecutions can happen under existing laws. If someone wants to get stoned just for the sake of getting stoned and they do not pose a threat to others in the process, that should be nobody's business but their own. If such a person puts his/her own job at risk by doing that... well tough!
If we took even half of the resources we waste every second on the War on Drugs (which we WILL never win), we could significantly reduce real crime in this country.
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posted on
04/20/2007 6:04:56 AM PDT
by
pnh102
To: tang0r
dudes...what about anti-smoking laws ?
you sell me marijuana but wont let me take a toke ?
bummer.
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posted on
04/20/2007 6:07:07 AM PDT
by
stylin19a
(If you are living on the edge...MOVE OVER ! Some of us are ready to jump !)
To: tang0r
To: tang0r
"Miron finds that by decriminalizing cannabis, the federal government would generate $2.4 billion in federal tax revenue annually" About the same amount owed by IRS employees who refuse to file tax forms.
To: tang0r
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posted on
04/20/2007 6:08:07 AM PDT
by
D-Chivas
To: Former Proud Canadian
Im having a lot of trouble choosing between the B-2s and the aircraft carriers, although Im leaning towards the carriers. You can't have a very good tailgate party on a B2. But on a Nimitz you can have that and the football game, too.
To: tang0r
the federal government would generate $2.4 billion in federal tax revenue annually How?
Marijuana can be grown in virtually every state, either indoors or outdoors. Those who use pot will prefer to buy it through home grown sources rather than subsidize the government by buying government packaged joints.
Thus they are setting up the need for an enforcement agency to go after the backyarder's. Is this cost deducted from the 2.4 Billion?
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posted on
04/20/2007 6:09:53 AM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(In this (political) War, Republicans are gutless appeasers. -- Ann Coulter)
To: Joe Brower
The ugly truth is that the "war on drugs" isn't about keeping the public safe, or promoting health, or any other tired platitude -- it's about CONTROL, plain and simple.Bingo.
It'll never happen folks. Too much power and money flowing into the hands of too many people.
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posted on
04/20/2007 6:12:34 AM PDT
by
Wormwood
(Future Former Freeper)
To: uptoolate
Right. Will anyone be working a full brain capacity?
To: bilhosty
Did they figure in the cost of drug rehab increased crime from dead heads etc? That's an already-existing cost. There is no evidence that illegal drug use would go up, as mainly those who want to use are using anyway right now.
Crime by definition would go down, as you've now defined things as not being a crime. But the peripheral crimes of those criminals would go down because they are no longer criminals. For example, they don't have to launder money anymore. Also, prices would go down even with taxation, reducing crimes committed to get money for drugs.
To: Joe Brower
The ugly truth is that the "war on drugs" isn't about keeping the public safe, or promoting health, or any other tired platitude -- it's about CONTROL, plain and simple. Many people are making obscene amounts of money by keeping marijuana illegal - always follow the money trail - and you will see very many hypocrites.
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posted on
04/20/2007 6:13:20 AM PDT
by
alicewonders
(I like Duncan Hunter for President in 2008!)
To: uptoolate
Once it becomes a major industry that lobbies and pays heavily into candidates campaigns like the tobacco and alcohol industries do, it will be loved an accepted by the Republican party. After all, it’s all about personal freedom, isn’t it?
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posted on
04/20/2007 6:15:51 AM PDT
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: tang0r
Build three nuclear reactors, because Greenpeace will be high and won't notice
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posted on
04/20/2007 6:16:49 AM PDT
by
absolootezer0
(stop repeat offenders - don't re-elect them!)
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