Social Objection to Ending Prohibition

“Won’t Legalizing Marijuana Increase Public Safety Costs?”

No.

Costs will go WAY DOWN!

Just ask yourself these simple questions:

• Which costs more money, tracking down and imprisoning people with marijuana or ignoring them?
• Which costs more money, going in to foreign lands to fight wars against marijuana or ending prohibition?
• Which costs more money, sending many billions of dollars to foreign lands for decades while watching the supply of marijuana increase, or ending prohibition and collecting tax revenues on a formerly huge black market activity?

Freeing the many people from prison who do not belong there will be a huge financial savings to society, as well as bringing them back in to society as productive members!

Reduced costs and danger due to chasing people running from the police if they have marijuana.

Economic Analysis

Visiting professor of economics at Harvard University, Jeffrey A. Miron, calculated costs to society. Over at the website, "Costs of Marijuana Prohibition: Economic Analysis," you can read more. But on the home page, right at the top is this "Replacing marijuana prohibition with a system of taxation and regulation similar to that used for alcoholic beverages would produce combined savings and tax revenues of between $10 billion and $14 billion per year."