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If Marijuana Production Were Legal: Projected Tax Revenues, by State
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Love it or hate it, people smoke marijuana - lots of it. In some states marijuana consumption and posession have been decriminalized, and even legalized for medicinal purposes. But, have you ever wondered how large the economics of Marijuana were? Us too. As a result ,have decided to put together this graphic, which illustrates the popularity of marijuana consumption, the federal tax dollars spent to keep marijuana illegal, and the possible tax revenues that could be generated if marijuana production were legalized and taxed like any other agricultural product. It is especially interesting, with regards to the Great Recession:

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jocelynballs048 November 14, 2009 at 5:34am

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johnnyb93 November 14, 2009 at 10:45am

Why would anyone with a home garden plot or a sunny window ever pay for highly taxed commercial marijuana when it is so easy to grow?

shssoichiro November 14, 2009 at 11:24am

Anyone who knows anything at all about history knows that prohibition doesn't work, it only makes things worse. Besides, marijuana is less harmful than alcohol. There's no logical reason for it to be illegal and keep wasting our tax dollars prosecuting it.

jasondrake1978 November 14, 2009 at 11:43am

Johnnyb93, Yeah its not hard if you have your own garden, but people are lazy. Do you bake your own bread, grow tomatoes, change your own oil, etc?? I thought so

Michael Frisbee November 14, 2009 at 12:20pm

Personally - I would like to see the numbers they used to justify their findings. Sources and such. It's easy to slap some numbers together and show a side of an argument - but be honest and show us how you came to that finding.

cmfz411019 November 14, 2009 at 1:07pm

marijuana is just a plant, why should it be illegal? those little buds come straight off the plant its not processed with a bunch of harmful shit. just because you dont smoke it doesn't mean its a bad thing. is it really harming you if someone rips a bong in the living room of their own house? like i said its a plant, maybe we should make tomatoes and apple illegal too.

djaxus November 14, 2009 at 1:26pm

Hey Michael, you should probably look at the bottom of the graph, all the information is from NORML.

enthused1286 November 14, 2009 at 7:03pm

Who says I can't get stoned? Me in my house alone, who says I can't get stoned?

Tamie Hamilton November 15, 2009 at 12:40am

re: johnnyb93 November 14, 2009 at 10:45am Why would anyone with a home garden plot or a sunny window ever pay for highly taxed commercial marijuana when it is so easy to grow? -------------- Do you see a lot of folks growing their own tobacco?

fishfry001 November 16, 2009 at 3:35pm

djaxus: Meaning what? That we're not getting the truth from NORML? I beg to differ. The opposite is true. You're going to believe the people who put pot on the Schedule 1 drug list along with heroin, cocaine and the like? That was atomic bomb overkill and anyone with a grain of intelligence and the ability to research will come to no other conclusion. They flat out lie and still you folks swallow it all and people go to jail every day, every day...

oogabooga November 16, 2009 at 5:57pm

Why bother messing up your life? Drugs and alcohol waste time, and money. If you need escape from reality of your life, perhaps you need to change the way you live...

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librajoy54347 November 16, 2009 at 10:32pm

My father used to farm it in nepal. Believe it or not I was interrogated by the feds when I was 17 because of he was farming it. In the 60's and 70's getting it was a breeze in NYC. I live in Portland, Oregon and you have to have some incurable disease to get it. Hell, I have a problem sleeping why can't I have some. Why does it have to be prescribed? Why can't everyone over the age of 18/21 have it? It's just not fair.

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hogsnorton November 17, 2009 at 5:11pm

Do you account for the cost of administration in your analysis? and insurance premium hikes? and new laws? I think it might be cheaper in the long run to simply leave the current "medical" system in place and expand/refine that rather than create a whole new layer of bureaucracy to squander money on. (in an efficient way, of course)

Kasey November 17, 2009 at 6:55pm

johnnyb93: Have you ever grown pot? Stand outside your front door and see if you can't smell the weed growing in your kitchen. shssoichiro: So true. Think of alcohol prohibition and the gangsters running speakeasys. criminalizing marijuana use/distribution gives criminals another thing to make money off of. jasondrake1978: If someone smells your freshly baked bread or tomatoes they're not going to call the police. Michael Frisbee: Can we agree that CNN is a more legitimate source? http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/taxes_marijuana/revenue.html

Kasey November 17, 2009 at 7:01pm

fishfry001: Agreed, marijuana should not be on the schedule 1 drug list where heroin and cocaine are. Both cigarettes and alcohol are more harmful to the human body than marijuana! Madness. We all know the cigarette hype. Alcohol will shut down your liver and your kidneys with a lifetime of overuse. I have 2 uncles in their 50s in hospice care for drinking beer everyday.

Kasey November 17, 2009 at 7:05pm

oogabooga: If 1 in 3 people is trying marijuana it's pretty darn pervasive. It's all over and easy to get. We don't want people to "ruin their lives" with drug use. We want the drugs REGULATED by licensed distributors. All OUR tax money being spent on pot and being spent to prosecute pot users would be money SAVED. All the tax money collected on the legal sale of pot would be money added to our ridiculous financial deficit. It just makes a lot of sense.

Kasey November 17, 2009 at 7:09pm

Arguments like "it's just not fair" and "I want to do it every night in my bedroom" aren't going to get marijuana legalized. It sounds like you've burnt out some brain cells. Do your homework and see why it makes sense. You cannot overdose or die from a marijuana high. People are doing it all over the place, we need to REGULATE it and make it a safe drug, because we obviously can't keep it from showing up in high schools.

onerevolutionent November 18, 2009 at 12:14am

http://wp.me/paWpq-xq its all the same. i can't wait til my grow room becomes legal so i can go legit. i dont care if they tax it.

Terry Lamb November 18, 2009 at 1:11am

Learn to spell "possession".

dimockn947 November 18, 2009 at 11:40am

Dear oogabooga, You say "If you need escape from reality of your life, perhaps you need to change the way you live...". I need to escape now and then from my habitual conceptions about what is important in life. Marijuana helps me to do that.

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ectseliot863 November 18, 2009 at 7:06pm

High school teacher here. Anyone can get it any time at my or any other school. They can't buy alcohol in the parking lot, but they can sure buy pot. And this is safe for our children how?

BlackJ November 19, 2009 at 2:49am

Marijuana is already mainstream! Funny conversation lately w/ parents and I found out not only are they smoking but they were comfortable buying a vaporizer online at http://www.1percent.com; I wasn't even that brave till after I heard this... The laws need to catch up with the times so innocents are not arrested for a harmless substance.

tbeoe1077 November 19, 2009 at 12:32pm

"Do you see a lot of folks growing their own tobacco?" If it were illegal, those addicted to the nicotine might do just that. There is a growing market for tobacco seeds. Google it. Also, check out Anandamine- the bodies' natural THC and the Anandamide receptors

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cxcx003 November 20, 2009 at 3:48pm

Valid medicinal value, it’s a victimless crime, the War on Drugs WAY too costly, too many arrests for simple possession, tax it and use the money to pay for health insurance and to reduce the deficit…Need I say more?seo

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