Enforcing US marijuana laws costs about $3.6 billion a year

Wasting billions on 8.2 million marijuana arrests between 2001 and 2010.
Costs are now only $273,926.00 A DAY, or
$1,917,482.00 A WEEK, or
$5,752,4460.00 A MONTH
These are just the tax burden figures.
There are a lot more costs and they aren't all financial... USA-1

aclu.org/billions-dollars-wasted-racially-biased-arrests

Legalize and tax it IMHO. I think this is the favored viewpoint from anyone who doesn't have money invested in pharmaceuticals or lumber companies, or that of the brainwashed and uninformed.

thats all? i would have thought it was double or tripple that.
they run 3 helicopters an armored truck and about 30 officers in cars, 4 wheelers and trucks for a week straight in sept around here. thats one tiny county (and a poor one, poverty stricken) in one state (the poorest in many ways i don't mean poverty this time) that is not known for growing and they never find much either. few hundred plants for that much equipment.

i bet we give more than 3.6 billion to fight (or grow) cocaine in columbia and also to fight (grow??) poppies in afganistan

dopey just stop it with all your relevant and level headed points you sound like you have a hidden agenda for sure. how dare you

/sarcasm

That's a low ball figure and I'm sure once you add in local enforcement and state its 100 times that. Wonder how they got.there figures