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If the government saved a ton of money by not trying to fight the "War on Drugs" and also collected a lot of tax revenue on softer drugs like marijuana they'd h
by smhenderson 12y ago
If the government saved a ton of money by not trying to fight the "War on Drugs" and also collected a lot of tax revenue on softer drugs like marijuana they'd have a lot more to put into education, treatment and prevention.
- LordKano 12y agoEven if the government would go part-way, there'd be an enormous impact. Let's say that we legalized marijuana... The last figure that I read was that 85% of the DEA's budget was spent fighting marijuana. If it were legalized, overnight, that would mean that the amount of money available to go after cocaine, heroin, crystal meth and prescription opiate trafficking would be increased by about 566%.
- cleaver 12y agoIf you took only 10% of the budget and put it toward treatment and harm reduction, I believe that the problems associated with abuse would plummet. Portugal saw something like 50% decline when they decriminalized.