Slippery Slope
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- Aug 28, 2008
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- in a neocon's craw
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- Slightly Liberal
It is hard to collect accurate data, because of the very nature of having concrete numbers on a unregulated unknown commodity.
Here is a good attempt at a cost benefit courtesy of Jeffrey Miron, Professor of Economics at Harvard. It also carries the endorsement of 500+ other Economists:
Costs of Marijuana Prohibition: Economic Analysis
I still cannot find the data on the MPP study (pretty sure it was theirs) which is used for the AB 390 estimates of 1.3 billion in rev. for CA, and also estimates Ca's expenditures. I really should have bookmarked that.
And let's not forget that legalizing MJ will then allow farmers to grow industrial hemp which would become the biggest green tech industry. But you know who doesn't want that: Petroleum companies, petrochemical companies, timber companies, textile companies...