Thursday, October 07, 2010

Just Legalize It

Jeffrey Miron....nicely played, sir.

(Nod to Richard S.)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wouldn't the government have to spend money preventing (or rather eliminating) black market drugs in order collect tax revenue...Perhaps a lot.

Michael Ward said...

@anon: It would get some help from legitimate purveyors. Don't medallion holding taxi drivers raise a fuss when too many gypsy cabs encroach their territory?

Karl said...

and here's your shirt, Mike.
http://www.jinx.com/starcraft/men/starcraft_terran_legalize_stim_packs.html?catid=104&cs=2&csd=104

Tom said...

The savings estimate is woefully low. Think of all the peaceful, honest people now rotting in prison, who could instead be productive members of society. What is the cost of the violent "justice" that necessarily goes with the black-market drug trade?

Anonymous said...

Don't forget the law enforcement savings from the reduction in drug-related violent crime. People don't kill each other [as often] over stuff they can buy at CVS or 7-Eleven.