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Some interesting figures

Discussion in 'Apprentice Marijuana Consumption' started by -{ Avenge }-, Dec 12, 2009.

  1. #1 -{ Avenge }-, Dec 12, 2009
    These are the projected tax revenues (in millions of dollars) that each state would make (yearly) if pot were to be legalized.

    California 105.4
    New York 65.5
    Florida 48.2
    Texas 46.6
    Ohio 34.8
    Michigan 32.4
    Illinois 31.6
    Pennsylvania 30.5
    Washington 22.0
    Virginia 20.9
    North Carolina 20.6
    Georgia 19.3
    New Jersey 19.3
    Massachusetts 18.4
    Indiana 17.8
    Colorado 17.6
    Missouri 15.6
    Minnesota 14.3
    Oregon 14.1
    Maryland 13.9
    Wisconsin 13.4
    Arizona 13.0
    Louisiana 13.0
    Tennessee 12.2
    Kentucky 10.2
    Connecticut 9.8
    South Carolina 9.1
    Alabama 8.9
    Oklahoma 8.3
    Nevada 7.9
    Arkansas 6.7
    Kansas 6.6
    Mississippi 6.6
    Iowa 6.2
    New Hampshire 5.6
    Nebraska 5.0
    New Mexico 4.9
    Utah 4.7
    Rhode Island 4.6
    Maine 4.1
    West Virginia 4.1
    Hawaii 4.0
    Montana 3.6
    Idaho 3.3
    Alaska 2.8
    District of Columbia 2.8
    Vermont 2.8
    Delaware 2.4
    South Dakota 2.0
    North Dakota 1.6
    Wyoming 1.2
    * Revenues based on state-by-state marijuana consumption, assuming pot were legalized. Source: Prof. Jeffrey Miron, "Budgetary Implications of Marijuana Prohibitions," June 2005.
     
  2. #2 ITNinja, Dec 12, 2009
    While pot may be good legalized, I can think of one good reason it might be better to decriminilize it, and one reason it wont ever be legalized.

    If it where legalized it would become something else all of a sudden, Chemicals now mixed it, Immense amounts of tar, filters and a whole bunch of horseshit.

    Why it wont ever be legalized:
    If you went to the supermarket and found tomatoes to be on sale for 75 bucks per tomato.....Guess what your damn well not gonna buy that tomato, Your gonna go grow your own. If weed where bought in standard conviencience stores, It would have to sell for such a low price, Otherwise why wouldnt you just go to the dealer you have been goig to for years? Or grow your own.
     
  3. #3 tharedhead, Dec 12, 2009
    L.A. acts to cap medical marijuana dispensaries -- latimes.com

    That is a lot of tomatoes:)
     
  4. #4 ITNinja, Dec 12, 2009
    Man, Was I ever wrong or what. Well that theory is dead and gone.

    (Im not one to argue a point that is obviously beaten to death with a stick of pure genious)

    :)
     

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