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In California's Marijuana Truce, a Troubling Gray Legal Area
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by legalizenow | March 29, 2009 at 01:58 pm
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An article in Times Magazine has confirmed that federal raids on medical marijuana facilities will not be targeted by the Drug Enforcement of America (DEA) any longer. In California, one of 13 states that have decriminalized marijuana for medial use, the DEA has been estimated to have spent well over $10 million US from the years of 2005- 2007 on only medical marijuana facilities. These costs do not include legal fee's which would cost the government $500,000 to pay the prosecutor in each case. In turn these dispensary's have produced $100 million US in revenue for the government in taxes.
The link to the article is here: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1888172,00.html?iid=digg_share
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at 15:46 on March 29th, 2009
Ooo, and don’t forget Canada!
It is clear that if there is prohibition on one side of the boarder then there has to be prohibition on the other side as well. That is the main problem right now, both nations are scared by the social misconceptions about marijuana, and their leaders have an image to keep. It’s quite the delema. I guess the goal is to change people’s misconceptions about marijuana and then only will the leaders will then change their minds as well.
Since we are in the middle of an economic downturn, the cost financially of these issues finally starts to arise. Three days ago a economics professor at Harvard University, Jeffrey Miron, suggested that these were the costs of marijuana prohibition that would be:
$44 Billion = Police, jails, all costs for combating marijuana
If it was legalized:
$33 Billion = Tax revenue on drugs.
This means that every year the American government will save $44 billion US on regulating marijuana and it would make $33 Billion US on taxes if marijuana were legalize, regulated and taxed.