Would legalizing marijuana in america help the economy?
✿Britt ❤'s Steven Tyler✿
2012/09/16 15:48:21
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with marijuana being legal in the us i thinnk it would help the economy. the income from it will be a lot of help to bring en money for the economy to help people in need and the faming will give people more jobs. it will help businesses from the ammount of money it can bring in. it will lower crime in america from less drug dealers on the streets. I am not a huge fan of it like most people in america seem to be, i could care less about it. i just see a potential in it to make the economy a little better. may not be a huge difference it will bring but it will be something. most countries already have it legalized, america is one of those outcast ones who still has it illegal. legalizing it will like i said, lower crime rates, bring in more money for the economy, bussiness owners, and create more jobs. that is my opinion on it, what do you think, will the legalization of marijuana help the economy?
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Tamara McMillan 2012/09/17 03:08:06yes
+3OFCOURSE it would help! Just look at California for an example of that . . . it is the Largest selling and money making cash crop there! Legalizing it helps a great deal and all one needs do is watch a reliable program on the subject like 60 Minutes has had to know this.
http://www.examiner.com/artic...
http://www.informationdistill...
Perhaps there is one net economic benefit to it, and that is that it opens a new industry with a very low barrier to entry (hemp is, I hear, very simple to grow). This will certainly result in a few jobs being created. But that doesn't necessarily mean it will improve the economy as a whole.
It would, however, be a boon to public finance. Not only would the justice system be unclogged of non-violent marijuana cases, reducing overall costs; but also the collection of revenue and income generated from marijuana sale would most certainly add up to a large sum. And ofc it is debatable whether or not this is actually a good thing.
Admittedly, I am not familiar with the specifics of hemp plastics or biofeuls.
Hemp bio-fuels and plastics would moves the losses into the 10s to 100s of billions. This does not include the medical uses for hemp or hemp as a food source. You know that gruel that they talk about in history? Well the fact of the matter is that it was made from hemp seed powder. An it is known to have saved the lives of millions of people through out history from dieing of starvation.
Were not talking a few millions of dollars lost to the people of America by not using hemp in all its possibilities. Were talking over the course of a decade the loss of probably trillions of dollars. Not to mention that more hemp production and use would mean more jobs and less unemployed. Basically its a all win and no loss to go to growing, processing and using hemp based products. As hemp grown for industrial use is never able to even have enough thc content for viable drug us...
Hemp bio-fuels and plastics would moves the losses into the 10s to 100s of billions. This does not include the medical uses for hemp or hemp as a food source. You know that gruel that they talk about in history? Well the fact of the matter is that it was made from hemp seed powder. An it is known to have saved the lives of millions of people through out history from dieing of starvation.
Were not talking a few millions of dollars lost to the people of America by not using hemp in all its possibilities. Were talking over the course of a decade the loss of probably trillions of dollars. Not to mention that more hemp production and use would mean more jobs and less unemployed. Basically its a all win and no loss to go to growing, processing and using hemp based products. As hemp grown for industrial use is never able to even have enough thc content for viable drug use. In fact hemp grown for industrial use is 100% opposite of how it is grown for drug use.
Then we can get into the use of the waste product of processing hemp known as hemp hurds. Now hemp hurds have several uses that most are not aware of.
1) Bedding for animals
2) Feed for animals
3) Heating of homes
4) Burning in power plants to create electricity
5) Burning to create steam to drive industrial plants
6) When we had steam based farm equipment it was used to power it.
All that from the waste product. Not to mention it can be used in concrete to make the concrete 6 times lighter and stronger. Also it can be used as eco-friendly insulation in buildings.
So the real economic and other losses to America from not using hemp are way more that even a few trillions of dollars over the course of a decade.
But please do not take my word for it do your own research about what hemp can be used for and then start following the logic of it all.
You might try places like the following:
http://www.hempfarm.org/
http://rense.com/general49/co...
http://azhemp.org/Archive/Pac...
http://naihc.org/hemp_informa...
http://www.hemp.org/news/book...
http://www.hempology.org/ALL%...
http://www.hemp.com/hemp-univ...
http://www.sdearthtimes.com/e...
To put this inter terms you might understand, you're expecting gourmet chefs to become burger flippers and think it's a good deal.
But we already get all of these through other natural resources. Our infrastructure is geared towards it. And there's not enough profit in going with hemp, at least at this current time, to make it worth the transition.
If marijuana is legalized for it's tax revenue, what's next? Pentobarbitol? Cocaine? PCP? Demerol?
The cartels in Mexico and drug-related crime gangs in the USA exist because of the current U.S. drug policies. If it wasn't for America's war on drugs, the illegal drug trade wouldn't be so profitable.
When in reality, NONE of that is true!
But I believe it is for this very reason that it isn't legalized among the mind-altering effects.
There is no true legitimate reason to oppose the consumption of marijuana.
It's toxicity (if it had any) should not be a reason for criminalization in a free country.
The potentiality of inflicting harm upon others while under it's influence is trivial to none-existent compared to the same potentiality under the influence of alcohol.
It's all very well saying that the Government would make money from taxes but I firmly believe that it leads to harder drugs.
Also, would the tax outweigh the long-term costs on health care?
I can only comment on here in Britain - I sincerely doubt it will become legal in the near future.
Also, Marijuana is a natural healing agent. It is used to treat people with: motion sickness, cancer, AIDS, Multiple Sclerosis, ADHD, depression, etc... The tax increase would by far outweigh the long-term costs on Health care because Marijuana is not cancerous on its own, and it does not kill brain cells like the propaganda behind it would suggest.
http://healthland.time.com/20...