Ethics

The Financial Benefits of Legalizing Pot

By Ed Brayton

Anita Bartholomew has a post at Culture11, a site apparently co-founded by former drug czar William Bennett, laying out the many benefits of legalizing marijuana.

With our economy going to pot, President-elect Obama has promised a "top-to-bottom audit to eliminate spending for programs that don't work." So, here's a sane, simple proposal to save the country billions of dollars a year: end the war on marijuana users.

This failed and counter-productive program is an assault on people who pose virtually no threat to themselves or anyone else, certainly no more than that all-American "Joe Sixpack" revered in our recent presidential election.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on January 20, 2009 (boomark / email).