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Should the government legalize marijuana for economic reasons?

Marijuana-related incarceration costs the US an estimated $1.2 billion/year (1). Police, DEA, and customs also add to the cost illegalization. So, savings could be achieved through decriminalization.

But legalization would open up a massive stream of revenue. The USA consumes roughly 14,000 metric tons of marijuana/year (2). Street price varies widely, but hypothetically let’s say $100/ounce (~$3.50/g). Government-regulated farms would probably cost a negligible fraction of that. So, let’s assume a post-legalization sales price of $3/gram, of which 80% is federal tax (the remainder being production, distribution, and vendor profit):

14,000mt = 14,000,000kg = 14 billion g x $3 x 0.80 = $33.6 billion. Of course, this is assuming that pre-prohibition levels were maintained.

Less tangible social benefits would include reduced incentive for gang crime, and reducing the ‘gateway drug’ effect (since marijuana users would no longer be purchasing from drug dealers).

(1) http://members.tripod.com/~ronmull/marijuana.html
(2) http://www.drugscience.org/Archive/bcr4/5Supply.html

And, just for the record, I don’t smoke marijuana, nor would I start if it were legalized.

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If the Feds were not doing the job they should be doing, would they have a discovered a 2nd major drug tunnel?

Some people say that the Feds are not doing their job, but have they taken their time to see all the news releases on ICE’s website? Why do people say that the Feds are lazy?

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http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1011/101126sandiego.htm

Discovery of 2nd major San Diego-area cross-border drug tunnel leads to 8 arrests, seizure of more than 20 tons of marijuana

SAN DIEGO – Eight suspects are in custody on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border and more than 20 tons of marijuana have been seized following the San Diego Tunnel Task Force’s discovery Thursday of a cross-border passageway even more sophisticated than a similar tunnel uncovered in the area less than three weeks ago.

Unlike previous area tunnels, the nearly half-mile long passageway had two U.S. entrances located in warehouses about 800 feet apart in the Otay Mesa industrial complex in southern San Diego. The tunnel, which reached an estimated depth of 90 feet, emerged in Tijuana, Mexico, inside a stucco residence outfitted with a garage large enough to accommodate deliveries by tractor trailer trucks. Inside, the tunnel’s walls were fortified with wood and cinderblock supports and the passageway was equipped with advanced rail, electrical and ventilation systems. In addition, near one of the tunnel’s entrances, its builders had carved out a 10 by 20 foot underground room where authorities believe smugglers off-loaded marijuana bales from the rail cart before hoisting them to the surface.
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NOTE: this is not about numbers in this one article, take your time to read all the news releases before answering, thanks!

Is there any such thing as a non-stoner who thinks marijuana should be legalized?

I doubt it. I would bet my life that everyone who doesn’t use marijuana is against legalization. They know how harmful it is and all of them hate people who use it so why should they support it?

I have found a marihuana leaf on school campus,what should i do with it?

Nuff said.

tell me why drugs should or should not be legalized?

Prohibition does not prevent cannabis use by children or the mentally ill, the vulnerable populations whom we supposedly want to protect. Instead, cannabis prohibition makes it more difficult for parents, patients, society, doctors and law enforcement to control cannabis use.

The Drug War makes honest education about cannabis impossible, and leaves cannabis users marginalized in ways that make their lives more stressful.
This stress is unhealthy for everyone, but it is certainly most damaging to people with schizophrenia.

Cannabis prohibition is not merely a failure; it is a counterproductive fraud that is harming those whom we claim we want to protect.
There are currently more teens in treatment centers for marijuana in comparison to those admitted for alcohol.
Only an idiot would have to ask why alcohol is not the no#1 problem
after all alcohol is perfectly legal ( If you are 21.)
That is due to responsible people handling alcohol by way of the carding and id system.

Contraband markets make no age disgression.
Since the crackdown on tobacco there are 75% fewer teens trying or using tobacco.
However when it comes to cannabis and other illicit substances it’s a whole
other ball game.
Control, regulation and better education work prohibition, dose not.
Or as John Walters of the ondcp (Office for national drug control policy) calls it “ a war on drugs” (Sorry John but it’s true look at the Netherlands)

America loves a war even if it is on it’s own people.

One of several reason they don’t legalize drugs is not because of the harm of drugs,
But people would lose more money in the long run.
Some of the people behind the support of this irrational so called war are
The tobacco industry,
the alcohol and distilled spirit industry ( people simply don’t drink as much, or decide not to drink at all with cannabis meaning a decline in there sales.
The pharmaceutical corporations can not make money on whole or raw cannabis, but they can charge an arm and a leg for there synthetic Marinol (dronabinol) CIII.

The textile and paper industry would lose out from hemp production, sinse hemp dose not need to go through all the various processes that ordinary tree products would. Also it’s possible to get two harvest in one season.

However people don’t know the difference between industrial hemp and smokeable cannabis, yet they are able to distinguish between the two in other country’s like Germany, the UK , Netherlands and even Canada, but our `DEA agents are so dumb they cant tell the difference between a stalk and a bush.
Also people who have any knowledge of growing high quality cannabis will tell you that male plants should never be grown next to your high grade female plants,
(unless of course you want to pollinate for future seed production).
When it comes to farming hemp the males are left in tact to pollinate the females and produce as much seed as possible.

This would mean a seedy mess for the pot smoker to clean up and produce undesirable future generations of smokeable cannabis.

If anything, Hemp farming would be anti marijuana and would harm any outdoor pot farming within a one mile radius of any hemp farm.

The petroleum industry would also be affected, sinse almost everything that can be made from petroleum can be synthesized from hemp oil, everything from bio fuel to even plastics. If North America would use a third of it’s land for hemp production we could create enough bio fuel to supply an area the size of Canada.

Now also for a moment consider how many people are incarcerated over just cannabis who are currently in the prisons and jails.
If cannabis were legalized and all inmates serving time for cannabis were freed there would be an over abundance of empty cells, and millions of guards in this country would be no longer needed.
The prison building industry would almost be obsolete ( and if all drugs were legalized that would mean even more empty cells).

So the prison system must have some means of gaining more inmates.
Not to mention other areas such as treatment centers, probation.etc
or HIDTA high intensity drug traffic areas where money is fed in to law enforcement,
(they would miss there green $$$)

Drugs , not even alcohol are the cause of the fundamental ills of society, rather than checking people for the presence of drugs, they should first test people for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

Check out Law Enforcement Against Prohibition at

Should all these illegals be charged with smuggling drugs 12 men, four women, and one 16-year-old boy?

About half a ton of marijuana was seized and 17 illegal immigrants were intercepted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection marine interdiction crews in two different operations in San Diego Tuesday night.

The boat filled with the load of cannabis was discovered in Mission Bay, while the vessel transporting the undocumented aliens was stopped off of Leucadia, California.

A CBP Midnight Express interceptor vessel, spotted an apparently abandoned boat, tied up to a dock in Mission Bay. Agents discovered packages of marijuana inside the cabin and hidden within the floor, which weighed 997 pounds and are worth an estimated half a million dollars. Authorities revealed the seized vessel is registered in California.

In a second smuggling attempt about 3:30 a.m. on Wednesday, a CBP craft patrolling the area some two miles off shore from Leucadia, California, spotted a 36-foot fishing boat which fled when the CBP vessel approached. After a brief pursuit, agents brought the vessel and 17 persons on board to shore.

U.S. Border Patrol agents took custody of 12 men, four women, and one 16-year-old boy, all of whom are illegal immigrants and are believed to be Mexican citizens. An investigation has been initiated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

http://www.examiner.com/x-9270-LA-Border-and-Immigration-Examiner~y2010m3d5-CBP-seizes-halfton-marijuana-intercepts-17-Illegal-Immigrants

Why would the parents of a 16-year-old boy allow their son to be involved in smuggling of drugs ? And the illegals knew those packages aboard the boat were not care packages. Should they all be charged since they all were caught with drugs ?

Should We Legalize Marijuana by Comedian Garrett Morris Downtown Comedy Club


Garrett Morris Downtown Comedy Club Should We Legalize Marijuana by Comedian Garrett Morris The show begins with several reflective moments speaking with Garrett Morris plus Jeffrey Peterson interviews Garrett on the issue of the hypocrisy of keeping marijuana an illegal substance while alcohol and cigarette smoking kill thousands of human beings every year as legal substances, our thanks to Downtown Comedy Club partner, Mr. Kevin Garnier, contact: kfunnyman@yahoo.com The word is out that the Downtown Comedy Club will return to downtown Los Angeles @ The Exchange 114 S 5th Street between Main and Spring Streets I strongly recommend this venue to everyone who enjoys a good healthy laugh at affordable prices. Blaze-Out

AFTER THIS VIDEO, IF YOU STILL THINK A WEED SHOULD REMAIN ILLEGAL… YOU’RE A RETARD! (1/4)


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Should tobacco use be confined to public waste disposal dumps?

Isn’t the filthy use of tobacco products corrupting the moral fiber of America? Teen age Children are forming the habit of smoking and dipping filthy tobacco products. Shouldn’t tobacco farms be outlawed in the US. Tobacco products destroy many more lives than Marijuana ever has and it is outlawed. Shouldn’t filthy tobacco users just be spat on whenever encountered?

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