politics skewing marijuana's benefits...

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?

Ganj, did you get arrested? The Cops, also, have to waste money checking out false 911 calls. Don't know where that plays into this.

Ganj, did you get arrested?

I live in Belgium, and here the situation is also becoming worse. A few weeks ago, when I returned from the city where I go to college to go home, there was a huge drugs control for everyone coming of that train. Only, like, twenty people out of probaly moren than 150 got picked out by the dog, and eventually, only one person really had drugs on him. Such operations probably cost a lot of money and time, and that only for one person! Meanwhile, two min away from the train station, people are fighting, stealing etc, but the cops just stand there and watch! I call this discrimination...

it's ridiculous...i'm pretty concerned...i'm not scared, fuck, i'll never let those fucks scare me, even though they can put you in a cage...they can just lock you up, even though we're all jsut human, they try to control us...they can never control our minds though...remember that...

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Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs

Ganj, did you get arrested? The Cops, also, have to waste money checking out false 911 calls. Don't know where that plays into this.

Ganj, did you get arrested?

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oh no! i stay safe with mary jane. it's just sickening to see how the government is willing to put politics, before the health of citizens. even non-marijuana users could benefit from the decriminalization of marijuana. this dude from harvard reported that by decriminalizing marijuana there would be an annual savings of $14 billion. this is, of course, if it were decriminalized.

It would've saved me several thousand dollars had it been legal all along. It would've, also, allowed me to use my money for something that could've furthered my life. Instead, I was always brought back to poverty by court costs (not just for weed, but not murder or robbery, either).