An argument that doesn’t seem to have the weight it should among the legalization crowd is the amount that would be saved if the Drug War is ended.
This argument should have a particular weight with your conservative friends. Maybe they won’t be sold on the fact that the Drug War is racially biased or the amount of people imprisoned by the Drug War, but their eyes will widen when they see the amount of taxes saved.
Ankur Chawla, a writer for State Sight, released astounding numbers for what he predicted would be saved. His numbers accounted for law enforcement expenditures, judicial expenditures, and prison expenditures, which pretty much sums up all the elements of the Drug War quite nicely.
His final numbers for saving in Oregon was $90,613,650 a years, Washington D.C. could save up to $44,655,310 a year, and Alaska could save up to $19,499,920 a year. Imagine all that money still in the pockets of the tax-payer, or at least going to something more worthwhile. See Full Story at TheWeedBlog.com
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