Skip to comments.
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
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80 ... 101-107 next last
To: tang0r
The math: $2.4 billion per year + $7.7 billion per year = $10.1 billion gained in total per year.Not even a $1 is downside cost? I'm doubting the seriousness of this analysis...
21
posted on
04/20/2007 6:19:09 AM PDT
by
Onelifetogive
(Liberals are willing to sacrifice any amount of someone else's money to increase their own power...)
To: pnh102
Sometimes I wonder what I could have been had I not ‘wasted’ so much of my life tokin’, then swallowing, then dropping, and finally snortin’.
I might not have made the decision to go blow off college.
22
posted on
04/20/2007 6:19:46 AM PDT
by
uptoolate
(If it sounds absurd, 51% chance it was sarcasm.)
To: Former Proud Canadian
Are those fully equipped carriers?
23
posted on
04/20/2007 6:21:48 AM PDT
by
wordsofearnest
(Zachary Taylor s/h finished the job.)
To: tang0r
2 Minitz class aircraft carriers?...... For $10B? They must be really Mini-tz Class!..........
24
posted on
04/20/2007 6:22:42 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If it's consensus, it's not science. If it's science, there's no need for consensus......)
To: uptoolate
Unfortunately, what you were doing was illegal - so it forced you to have to be around some less than desirable people. They had a profit motive to get you hooked on harder stuff - & so it began.
It’s like:
Guns don’t kill people - people kill people.
Pot doesn’t make you lazy - laziness makes you lazy.
25
posted on
04/20/2007 6:23:09 AM PDT
by
alicewonders
(I like Duncan Hunter for President in 2008!)
To: freekitty
Will anyone be working a full brain capacity?Nope. Everyone will run right out and get stoned. Except for the ones that are too drunk.
26
posted on
04/20/2007 6:23:16 AM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: wordsofearnest
No, they are the new Mini-tz Class carriers..............
27
posted on
04/20/2007 6:23:25 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If it's consensus, it's not science. If it's science, there's no need for consensus......)
To: tacticalogic
Nope. Everyone will run right out and get stoned. Except for the ones that are too drunk. Or too full of Xanax, or Prozac, or Paxil, or Zoloft, or...
28
posted on
04/20/2007 6:24:22 AM PDT
by
Wormwood
(Future Former Freeper)
To: tang0r
uhh got a light, there, Promy?
To: tang0r
More money well wasted by the government.
30
posted on
04/20/2007 6:24:48 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
( Freep Fox they drop the ball on GOE)
To: tang0r
I agree that pot should at least be decriminalized. But that kind of tax money from it is a pipe dream. It’s a weed, it can be grown almost anywhere.
31
posted on
04/20/2007 6:24:56 AM PDT
by
stevio
((NRA))
To: freekitty
Will anyone be working a full brain capacity?......They don’t now!........
32
posted on
04/20/2007 6:25:20 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If it's consensus, it's not science. If it's science, there's no need for consensus......)
To: tang0r
uhh got a light, there, Promy?
To: tang0r
Marijuana is not illegal just because we want to have a reason to arrest someone. It is illegal because it is harmful and dangerous to use.
Anyone calling for the legalization of marijuana is an idiot.
34
posted on
04/20/2007 6:36:58 AM PDT
by
Bryan24
(When in doubt, move to the right....)
To: tang0r
“Jeffery A. Miron finds that by decriminalizing cannabis, the federal government would generate $2.4 billion in federal tax revenue annually,”
Why the hell would anyone pay high taxes on something they could legally grow at their from door step, especially when they’re too stoned to get a good job? More crappy work like this kind of “dopey” study is more likely what we could expect from decriminalization
35
posted on
04/20/2007 6:43:00 AM PDT
by
elfman2
(An army of amateurs doing the media's job.)
To: bilhosty
you obviously know nothing about MJ. it is not addictive therefore no rehab. Increased crime comes with the other drugs like alcohol, NOT MJ. stop getting your MJ updates from the gov’t, they will lie to you.
36
posted on
04/20/2007 6:47:28 AM PDT
by
vin-one
(REMEMBER the WTC !!!!!!!!)
To: Bryan24
Anyone calling for the legalization of marijuana is an idiot. Anyone who thinks it is more harmful than alcohol is an even bigger idiot.
-ccm
37
posted on
04/20/2007 6:49:43 AM PDT
by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order.)
To: tang0r
We could get even MORE tax dollars by taxing homosexual behavior, incest, prostitution, hate speech, fast food, twinkies, etc., etc.
If we legalize murder, legalize rape, legalize assault, etc., and tax them by eliminating all laws, we can eliminate income taxes, too.
/sarc
To: Bryan24
How many people here know that it is illegal to study cannabis in the US for positive effects? You can only get approval to study for negative effects.
39
posted on
04/20/2007 6:51:44 AM PDT
by
phs3
(If you call a terrorist a freedom fighter, I call you the enemy.)
To: tang0r
Does this nation really need another vice?
40
posted on
04/20/2007 6:59:22 AM PDT
by
Blogatron
(I pitty the devil when hippies start arriving in bunches.)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80 ... 101-107 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson