Mand has been getting high in some fashion since they first walked this earth.
We see how ineffective prohibition was in the 1930′s.
There is no substantative medical study anywhere in the wrold where legalization of drugs has resulted in an increase of addiction rates.
So why should legalization of illicit drugs not have the same effect as repeal of prohibition had and reducing the power of the Mafia?
We could drastically reduce the $200 billion a year spent on interdiction efforts that still allow over $45 billion in illiciti drugs across our border with Mexico each year.
We could reduce the manpower assigned to all those DEA effrots and reallocate them to border control.
We could reduce our over 2.7 million in prison by 40% and quit educating that many more people in advanced criminal activities with such incarcerations. How many hundred of millions would that save a year to the public who foots the bill for this?
California $129.04 a day to house an inmate = $47,099.60 a year to tax payers per prisoner.
2.7 mil prisoners reduced by 40% = 1.08 mil not in prison if illicit drugs legalized x $47,099.60 = over $5 billion a year saved to taxpayers alone or somewhere close to that vicinty.
But no, those fifedoms of power in the FBI, DEA, and companies that own the prisons have no logical reason to actually legalize illicit drugs as that would eliminate their resource of criminals that justify their existence eh?
These are just the obvious talking and possible cost reduction points to begin with, more exist.
So who again cant see what effect legalization of illicit drugs would have?
