Ganj
10-26-2005, 03:31 AM
now, we all know that there has been more pot arrests recently than ever documented before. but why? the drug control budget went from $65 million in 1969 to over $19.2 billion in 2003.
"Much of that money has been poured into law enforcement and incarceration, but a significant chunk of the ONDCP's funding has also gone toward media advertising, to the tune of $4.2 billion since 1997."
"Pointing to the fact that marijuana-related arrests added up to nearly half of 1.5 million drug-related arrests annually, the authors of this report noted that marijuana arrests actually increased by 113 percent between 1990 and 2002, while overall arrests in the nation decreased by 3 percent."
police officials are so determined to wipe out any marijuana users, that 3% of the nations criminals have gotten away. that's absurd!! imagine another twelve years goes by, if this continues the crime rate is going to skyrocket, nationwide.
"Through his research, Miron concluded that the annual cost of marijuana criminalization came in at a shocking $5.1 billion in 2000. Replacing the current criminalization model with one of taxation and regulation (not unlike that used for alcohol), he projected, would produce combined savings and tax revenues of $10-14 billion per year. The report, in turn, led more than 500 economists (led by Nobel prize winner Milton Friedman) to sign their names to an open letter to President Bush calling for "an open and honest debate about marijuana prohibition that, would likely end up favoring a system where marijuana is legal but taxed and regulated like other goods."
stop criminalizing our people!! even the government should be interested in saving money, wouldn't you agree?
"Much of that money has been poured into law enforcement and incarceration, but a significant chunk of the ONDCP's funding has also gone toward media advertising, to the tune of $4.2 billion since 1997."
"Pointing to the fact that marijuana-related arrests added up to nearly half of 1.5 million drug-related arrests annually, the authors of this report noted that marijuana arrests actually increased by 113 percent between 1990 and 2002, while overall arrests in the nation decreased by 3 percent."
police officials are so determined to wipe out any marijuana users, that 3% of the nations criminals have gotten away. that's absurd!! imagine another twelve years goes by, if this continues the crime rate is going to skyrocket, nationwide.
"Through his research, Miron concluded that the annual cost of marijuana criminalization came in at a shocking $5.1 billion in 2000. Replacing the current criminalization model with one of taxation and regulation (not unlike that used for alcohol), he projected, would produce combined savings and tax revenues of $10-14 billion per year. The report, in turn, led more than 500 economists (led by Nobel prize winner Milton Friedman) to sign their names to an open letter to President Bush calling for "an open and honest debate about marijuana prohibition that, would likely end up favoring a system where marijuana is legal but taxed and regulated like other goods."
stop criminalizing our people!! even the government should be interested in saving money, wouldn't you agree?