In a report released today, Dr. Jeffrey Miron, visiting professor of economics at Harvard University, estimates that replacing marijuana prohibition with a system of taxation and regulation similar to that used for alcoholic beverages would produce combined savings and tax revenues of between $10 billion and $14 billion per year. In response, a group of more than 500 distinguished economists -- led by Nobel Prize-winner Dr. Milton Friedman -- released an open letter to President Bush and other public officials calling for "an open and honest debate about marijuana

http://prohibitioncosts.org/

a little good news anyway...

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BlueCat Reviewed by BlueCat on . Who will win the war on drugs? *sigh* after reading that thread with the link to www.freevibe.com , I'm starting to lose faith. I mean I'm seeing more and more people who actually believe the propogandist lies fed to them by so many groups, that weed will make you go psychotic, or shoot your friends, or destroy your mind, or is 10 times more cancer causing than tobacco and on and on and on... I'm hoping we'll win and one day it will be legal everywhere, but there are times I'm terrified that the nations will be overthrown by Rating: 5