Now that we know that legalizing Marijuana could make the state billions of dollars in tax revenue, lets explore how it would help the state SAVE money. The chart below shows the arrests per hour nationwide.
The chart shows that there has been an increasing amount of Marijuana related arrests in the United States. These figures are on a national scale, but consider this...of those 99 arrests per hour, 1 of almost every 10 arrests takes place in California. According to The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), the final year represented in this chart showed a 13% overall increase in arrests and an 81% increase in felony charges, the same charge for murder and rape.
This year California announced that they would release 40,000 state prisoners because they could no longer afford to house them. If Marijuana were just legalized we could have avoided arresting over 74,000 people in 2007 alone. This would have saved the state tons of money on housing these so-called criminals as well as in enforcing these misguided laws.
http://www.canorml.org/news/2007arrests.html
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/california-release-40-000-prisoners-2888749
This year California announced that they would release 40,000 state prisoners because they could no longer afford to house them. If Marijuana were just legalized we could have avoided arresting over 74,000 people in 2007 alone. This would have saved the state tons of money on housing these so-called criminals as well as in enforcing these misguided laws.
http://www.canorml.org/news/2007arrests.html
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/california-release-40-000-prisoners-2888749
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