On May 12, 2014, at 3:59 AM, Mugsy Lunsford <[email protected]> wrote: > posted this in public on FB, where I'm sure I'll be losing a few friends this > morning. ;) > > "A 2010 study by Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron found that not only would > the US save tremendous amounts of money were it to end drug prohibition, > legalizing could bring in an additional $46.7 billion in yearly tax revenue." > All that's happened since my class came to the same conclusion after doing > that math in 1970, is that we've spent over $1.3 Trillion and incarcerated > more of our own citizens than any other country in the world. > > https://news.vice.com/article/legal-pot-in-the-us-is-crippling-mexican-cartels
"The DEA doesn't want the drug war to end," said Nelson, when asked about a possible connection between the agency's hatred of legal pot and its buddies in Sinaloa. "If it ends, they don't get their toys and their budgets. Once it ends, they aren't going to have the kind of influence in foreign government. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but where there's smoke there's probably fire." Well DUH! Given that the whole marijuana demonization started because Harry Anslinger wanted to keep his Prohibition-era toys after repeal. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
