Winter Woman
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Your plans to celebrate 4/20 this Friday could actually make the government some money, if only such activities were legal. Thats according to a bunch of economists, and some prominent ones too.
More than 300 economists, including three nobel laureates, have signed a petition calling attention to the findings of a paper by Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron, which suggests that if the government legalized marijuana it would save $7.7 billion annually by not having to enforce the current prohibition on the drug. The report added that legalization would save an additional $6 billion per year if the government taxed marijuana at rates similar to alcohol and tobacco.
Read the rest here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/17/economists-marijuana-legalization_n_1431840.html?ref=mostpopular
Your plans to celebrate 4/20 this Friday could actually make the government some money, if only such activities were legal. Thats according to a bunch of economists, and some prominent ones too.
More than 300 economists, including three nobel laureates, have signed a petition calling attention to the findings of a paper by Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron, which suggests that if the government legalized marijuana it would save $7.7 billion annually by not having to enforce the current prohibition on the drug. The report added that legalization would save an additional $6 billion per year if the government taxed marijuana at rates similar to alcohol and tobacco.
Read the rest here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/17/economists-marijuana-legalization_n_1431840.html?ref=mostpopular