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Marajuana
Title: Marajuana
Category: Social Sciences
Details: Words: 443 | Pages: 1.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Marajuana
Most Americans do not want to spend scarce
public funds incarcerating nonviolent marijuana
offenders, at a cost of ,000 per year. Politicians
must reconsider our country's priorities and attach
more importance to combating violent crime than
targeting marijuana smokers.
Marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers at least
.5 billion annually. This is an enormous waste of
scarce federal dollars that should be used to target
violent crime.
Marijuana prohibition makes no exception for the
medical use of marijuana. The …showed first 75 words of 443 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 443 total…this level under legalization would
be by an excise tax on commercial sales. An
examination of the external costs imposed by
cannabis users on the rest of society suggests that a
"harmfulness tax" of $.50 - per joint is
appropriate. It can be estimated that excise taxes in
this range would raise between .2 and .4 billion
per year. Altogether, legalization would save the
taxpayers around - billion, not counting the
economic benefits of hemp agriculture and other
spinoff industries.
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