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Could Legalizing Marijuana Help the Economy?

By Paul Bedard, Alex Kingsbury

February 28, 2009 RSS Feed 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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swag breh

swag man of IA 1:41PM April 19, 2012

So many could beifit, who would not? The police will have more time dealing with real BAD GUYS and leave the mellow pot smokers alone. Jobs would be another reason and taxes another. Not to metion the hard hit the Mexican drug lords would take not being able to make there billions in brown dirt weed. That how you fight drugs. We need a change in alot of the way we run this contry. Put the 25,000 troups in south korea on are borders, and lets make are own underware agian!!!!! GOD Bless America.

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