Well, just a quite trip thru Googleland give one a little insight into the dollar costs of enforcing prohibition on pot... Minnesota spends $91M and Washington State $105M... Now those two states aren't even densely populated states but if we just took the average of their costs of roughly $100M and multiplied that by 50 states that would mean roughly $5B to enforce...

Now if you throw in lawyers and cops and jail, etc, you're prolly talking about double that amount... So we're up to a very conservative fuguire of $15B...

Now you throw in the tax that would be collected on the roughly 60,000,000 regular pot smokers and you can prolly double the amount to enforce so my guess is that legalization would save US $15B and gain US another $15B or so... We are no longer talking chump change...

Now throw in the fact that people aren't going to be loosing jobs because of getting busted and that means more with-holding and less unemployement...

Then thake the ban on hemp out of the equation and consider that an acre of hemp will out-produce every other crop known to mankind in the production of "oils" that can power cars and now we are really talkin' about some serious cash... Plus lots of jobs... Plus even more taxes collected... Plau exports... Plus, plus...

I mean, legalization of pot alone would prolly put another $100B into our economy and that is a conservative estimate...

And create a lot less turmoil in our families while doing it...

B~