Nevermind the morality or other aspects of jailing pot smokers, the economic costs are immense. Imprisonment costs tens of thousands per prisoner per year. Even if the pot smokers were not employed, which many of them might be, paying taxes and buying stuff, maintaining them on welfare would cost considerably less. Furthermore, pot smoking makes people lethargic, giggly, and hungry. But they rarely make near as much mayhem as someone jacked up on alcohol.

Saul