Mass. Decriminalizes Marijuana

[preciousjeni]

Originally Posted by Kevin

I've never touched the stuff and wouldn't even if it was legal here, but I find the way the U.S. drug policy to be utterly insane. We spend billions of dollars fighting a war that absolutely cannot be won.

Here in Oklahoma, when the Department of Agriculture/IRS or whoever does the satellite analysis of what crops are where based upon the reflected light (or whatever, I'm not familiar with the science) of the various crops, they also include marijuana in their analysis. This newspaper looks at that marijuana crop and analyzes exactly how much tax revenue the state is missing out on if it could just be sold at an ordinary sales tax.

Last year, they figured that enough revenue would be generated by that crop to fund common education. That doesn't even take into account the amount of cash which wouldn't be spent paying for private prisons and other enforcement measures.

Indeed.