For my Cotempoary Problems class my teacher wants us to research either flat-out legalization of weed or the legalizing of it for medicinal use. Of course I'm gonna go for flat-out legalization but I need a little bit of help. Does anyone know where I could find a dollar figure on how much the war on drugs cost last year? Does NORML have it maybe?
Here ya go. This is a great website I just found on Google: http://www.lindesmith.org/library/factsheets/economiccons/fact_economic.cfm Hope it helps.
Almost forgot about this thread, thanks for the linkage Panda. =) EDIT: Now I gotta find a figure on total alcohol deaths per year. That seems to be a hard one to find. EDIT2: Oh and before I forget, can someone tell me which Presidential Administration started the War on Drugs?
http://www.jackherer.com/ Theres a lot of good legalization info on this site, I think there is a comparison chart with alcohol and tobacco deaths on it somewhere.