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Congress interrogates economic cost of drug policy

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I'm listening online right now to an interesting Congressional hearing from the US Joint Economic Committee (see the hearing page here), via Sentencing Law & Policy.Congressman Jim Webb in his opening statement declared that marijuana is now California's most lucrative cash crop, surpassing even winemakers' profits, and that 4/5 of illegal marijuana fields in California are owned by Mexican drug cartels.Webb said 86% of US high school students said it is "very easy" or "fairly easy" to buy marijuana, even though the number of people in custody on drug charges increased 13-fold in the last 25 years.Here's the link to watch the hearing online. It started at 9 a.m. central time.RELATED: From the Congressional website:Charts: Percent of High School Seniors Who Can Obtain Drugs (PDF - 173...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 19, 2008 (boomark / email).

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