[EagleUSA]

Ending prohibition enforcement would save $7.7 billion in combined state and federal spending, the report says, while taxation would yield up to $6.2 billion a year.
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Rather than legalizing MJ, to save tax dollars, WHY NOT MAKE ILLEGAL ALIENS I-L-L-E-G-A-L and multiply that savings number by about TEN OR MORE. Sorry Mr. Friedman, you are looking in the wrong place to save tax dollars. Pick the LOW-HANGING FRUIT FIRST!

[GSlob]

"Pick the LOW-HANGING FRUIT FIRST!"
One does not preclude another. One can walk and chew gum at the same time, unless one is Gerald Ford. And the LEO time can be redirected to busting the illegals.

[Thomas Jefferson II]

Ending prohibition enforcement would save $7.7 billion in combined state and federal spending, the report says, while taxation would yield up to $6.2 billion a year.

I believe that when Nixon came up with the idea of the War on Drugs the budget was something like $200 million per year. Thirty-five years later and we now spend $20 Billion on the War on Drugs. Today, the drugs are more potent, cheaper, and more abundant. I may not be for legalization, but time has proven that spending MY money to fight the war is useless. Let the druggies get stoned, and cut my taxes.

End Note: those numbers may in fact be $20 million to $2 billion. I have the facts at home. Any argument about the cost is not irrelevant, because the argument is my money is being spent on someone else's problem. Throwing good money after bad money.

[Ken H]

Rather than legalizing MJ, to save tax dollars, WHY NOT MAKE ILLEGAL ALIENS I-L-L-E-G-A-L and multiply that savings number by about TEN OR MORE. Sorry Mr. Friedman, you are looking in the wrong place to save tax dollars. Pick the LOW-HANGING FRUIT FIRST!

Why not have the government put time and resources into enforcing immigration laws, rather than State medical mj laws?