How much tax money would be saved if marijuana was legalized and monitered by the buero of alchohal, tobbacco, and firearms? How much money would be saved if marijuana is decriminalized (decriminalized is different from legalized).
2007-06-04 05:31:27 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I would like numbers, statistics or at least links to websights with statistics.
2007-06-04 05:40:00 · update #1
Monk, very rarely do marijuana users need rehabilitation to quit. It has been proven in scientific studies to have minimal addiction potetual.
2007-06-04 05:42:56 · update #2
*potentual
2007-06-04 05:43:50 · update #3
i believe the war on drugs cost the usa about $40 billion a year - what percentage of that is solely for marajuana i'm not sure.
but the prohibition is far better for the organized crime that benefit from it, then the harms that would exist if it were legalized and controlled like alcohol.
there has never been a documented case of a person dying from an overdose and the claim that pot is a 'gateway drug' has been refuted over and over (though that has not stopped idiots from stating that anyway).
about 80% of those in prison for violent crimes were DRUNK when they did what got them put in prison - but we hear literally no talk of doing something about this.
cigarettes kill more people than nearly all other sources COMBINED - and our govt SUBSIDIZES IT!
there is no good reason why this is still illegal, other than empty headed politicians want to 'appear' tough on crime.
if marajuana were legalized it would be a HUGE tax windfall - just like alcohol is now and the organized crime that currently benefit from sales would be deprived of this income.
2007-06-04 05:51:14 · answer #1 · answered by nostradamus02012 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think of that the prohibition of marijuana is not greater helpful an thought than the prohibition of alcohol grow to be. Marijuana is an rather useful plant. this is a drugs, this is used to make clothing and cord, this is utilized in creams..... this is greater convenient on a persons' gadget than alcohol or cigarettes and yet our society has placed this variety of adverse view on it that we are actually not even attracted to a pair large reward of marijuana. to no longer point out the lots of money wasted to prosecute human beings and positioned human beings in penal complex for using and advertising marijuana. our penal complex gadget is packed full of people who've finished no longer something greater advantageous than use marijuana and this is in basic terms ridiculous. legalize it and tax it. we would be a happier society and perchance we can start up paying off that trillion some ordinary greenback deficit. legalizing marijuana is the clever factor to do.
2016-11-04 22:19:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
that would be difficult to quantify because drug control is all lumped together. the gov does not apportion out x number of dollars for opiates, crack, pot etc. It is all lumped together. Obviously alot of money would be saved and alot of money would be made because instead of putting people behind bars for pot charges (which costs tens of thousands a year to house an inmate) they would be in society paying taxes.
2007-06-04 05:47:35 · answer #3 · answered by incubator 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How much could be saved if we didn't control a lot of other things too.
Let's make a deal - you smoke your grass, I'll burn my leaves.
2007-06-04 05:38:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In fact the question is.. how much is spent ensuring you are controlled.
2007-06-04 05:39:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
None. The money would be shifted from prevention to rehab.
2007-06-04 05:35:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋