messagei dont see why the gov hasnt already. did we learn nothing from alcohols prohibition? thats wen all the bootleggers came out, and crime spiked. the same thing is going on right now with marijuana. (and might i add even tho weed is undoubtedly safer than alcohol, only ONE is legal?) people die from alcohol consumption EVERY DAY yet WEED seems to be a bigger problem, cause its still illegal?? WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS do you know how many citizens of our country are behind bars, stripped from their families, all because they were involved in marijuana, something virtually harmless!???!!
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Mark O'Keeffe replied on Nov 12, 2008If pot were legal, here’s how much money would be injected into the economy:
In 2000, there were 734,000 pot arrests. This amounts to about 10% of the “open” marijuana smoking population in the USA, probably less.
By “open”, I mean those folks who are open about smoking pot, not “closet pot smokers” who keep it a secret from everyone else but their dealer because they fear losing their jobs.So, if there are 10 million pot smokers in the USA and the average pot smoker smokes 2 grams (2 joints) per day at a cost of about $7.00 per gram, this is what would happen:
$14.00 per day X 365 days = $5,110.00 per year per person.
That’s about $511 MILLION a year.
Now you need coffeeshops to sell the weed, so you have to build them.
Amsterdam, for example has 200-300 coffeeshops.
It takes 4-8 people to build one house, or, in this case one coffeeshop. That’s 800-2,400 jobs created in one city.
Then you need staff to run those shops. That takes 4 people per shop. That’s another 800-1,200 jobs created in one city.
If only 2 cities in each of our 50 states had these coffeeshops, there would be 3,200 – 7,200 jobs created in each state. That means 160,000 – 360,000 jobs would be created nationwide.
AND WE HAVEN’T EVEN GROWN THE WEED YET!!!
