24-02-2009, 10:56 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Do They really think letting the people eat cake - sorry, smoke dope - will stop Khaos and Revolution?
Millions of Americans already do smoke dope. Changing the law will simply mean they won't be thrown in jail.
It makes sense for a bankrupt state to reverse a law which has no grounding in moral or fiscal logic.
http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/judg...acity-dope
This article claims the state would save 1.7 billion in enforcement costs and generate 1 billion in revenue but I think they underestimate the potential benefits. Millions of dollars spent to purchase the drug at inflated black market prices would be freed up to be spent elsewhere in the economy. The drug barons would see a major revenue stream evaporate. Crime would fall sharply.
Nothing makes people, even politicians, see more clearly than a healthy dose of financial impoverishment.