New York
Related: About this forumLegalise marijuana, tax it – and end NYC's wrongheaded war on pot-NYC Comptroller John Liu
John Liu
It's time to recognize that New York City's misguided war on marijuana has failed.
Instead of spending millions on low-level drug prosecutions that disproportionally affect communities of color, why not regulate the city's $1.65bn marijuana market and use the tax revenues to cut City University tuition in half? Instead of sending kids to the courthouse, let's send them to college.
A new report by my office (pdf) [of city comptroller] found that regulating marijuana sales would raise $400m annually, plus save another $31m by reallocating resources spent on marijuana-related arrests. Regulating marijuana would also offer relief to those suffering from a wide range of painful medical conditions, and make our streets safer by sapping the dangerous underground market that targets our children.
To be clear: under my proposal, only adults age 21 and over would be allowed to possess up to one ounce of marijuana which would be grown, processed, and sold by government-licensed businesses for recreational or medicinal purposes. There would be strict prohibitions on driving under the influence and marijuana use in public
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/17/legalise-marijuana-tax-nyc
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(196 posts)Feeding bodies into the prison industrial complex makes lots of money for people who really don't care of the young'uns are going to college or to jail..