How the legalization of Marijuana will benefit Americans
In 1937 the United States opened a new division of busness know as the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and was managed by Harry J. Anslinger. Anslinger launched his expedition to eradicate marijuana and summon those that were in negligence of the new regulation. By getting President Roosevelt to signed and advocate, what is known as "The Marijuana Tax Bill," this bill that would authorize American farmers to obtain a license from the Treasury Department to grow cannabis; it also made it a Federal crime for Americans to aquire, give away, or sell it without paying a 1% tax. The penalty for the violation of this act was a 2000 dollar fine and/or 5 years in federal prison. Working in collaboration with William Randolph Hearst, Anslinger was able to smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos,
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citizens spend $113 billion annually to consume an estimated 31.1 million pounds of pot, (Armento) that contributed to the "847,863 arrests for marijuana related offences, Crime in America: FBI Uniform Crime Reports 2008 with the average arrest costing $6245 taxpayers spent an additional $5.29 billion on the arrest and prosecution of marijuana offenders. To go even deeper into the pockets of the taxpayers as Americans we spend nearly $8 billion trying to enforce the laws prohibiting the use and possession of marijuana (Cartwright). This means that if America were to legalize marijuana the economic benefit would be approximately $126.29 billion dollars. This extra money could very well be the answer to our country's current economic peril. On February 24, 2010 president Obama purposed to allocate $46.7 billion to the Department of Education http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/budget10/10action.pdf. Just imagine if schools had roughly three times their current budgets, or if the extra money was dedicated to Stem cell, HIV, and cancer