The price of keeping marijuana illegal
It is incredibly expensive to keep marijuana illegal.
The cost of marijuana prohibition is hard to measure because there are so many different elements of the task that our government spends money on.
- cost of active law inforcement +
- cost of prosecution (and defense!) of accused offenders +
- cost of incarceration of convicted offenders +
- cost of (publicly funded) anti-drug education and propaganda +
- hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue that would be generated if drugs were legal and taxed +
- cost of foster care and social services for children of incarcerated offenders +
- what else? Please tell us if you can think of a factor that is not included here!
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