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Lost Taxes and Other Costs of Marijuana Laws

A Special Report in the October, 2007 issue of the Bulletin of Cannabis Reform

Government reports from the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the Library of Congress, and other sources indicate that the supply of marijuana in the United States is 14,349 metric tons, or 31.1 million pounds. Various price indexes from public and private sources produce a retail price of $7.87/gr or $3,570/lb, setting the overall retail value of the illicit marijuana market at $113 billion. Government reports indicate that the nation's marijuana laws cost taxpayers $41.8 billion annually. The Office of Management and Budget reports that local, state, and the federal government receipts represent 28.7% of the gross domestic product as tax revenue. The diversion of $113 billion from the taxable economy into the illicit economy deprives taxpayers of $31.1 billion annually. Marijuana arrests cost taxpayers $10.7 billion annually. Read the full report of the tremendous annual cost of marijuana prohibition in the current issue of the Bulletin of Cannabis Reform.

Our economy comes closer to collapse every day, but we can afford the prohibition of an herb that can't cause any harm at all. Who, after reading this, could doubt that the biggest crime we've ever seen is marijuana prohibition? Add to this the new budget for the DEA is 14 to 15 billion this year and what is the true number?

This must stop and it must stop now. We cannot continue to deprive the citizens of this country the aid and health care they need so a useless self serving law can continue to ruin us.....

The cost if we don't stop it will be the ruin of our country.........

"If we don't resist, then we only assist.."


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