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Could Legalizing Marijuana Help the Economy?

February 28, 2009 02:28 PM ET | Paul Bedard, Alex Kingsbury | Permanent Link | Print

By Alex Kingsbury, Washington Whispers

FDR spent his first few days in office fixing the banks, and then he legalized beer. President Obama has buoyed the banks; what about legalizing marijuana? asks Keith Stroup, the attorney who founded the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws in 1970. For decades, Stroup has argued that legalizing pot would produce mega tax windfalls, and now, officials of states zonked out by the fiscal crisis—Texas, Tennessee, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania—are asking Stroup for the 411 on ganja green. "As smokers," he adds, "we're raising our hands and saying: 'Tax us!' "

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POTT

Man i want the pot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pot pot i gotta smoke it

for the economy.

im am doing a project on marijuana and i have learned that if we do legalize marijuana then we could take hemp and make cloths and or so many other useful things which in return could help save our economy and get us out of debt with china.

legalizing marijuana

I think that legalizing marijuana would help our economy out alot, look at what happened after the great depression when alcohol was legalized. Why is somthing that so bad for you like alcohol legal and not marijuana. I think we would have a better world, I dont use marijuana anymore but it has so many possitives to it. So why would anyone object to a herbal medicine?

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