Even if the government would go part-way, there'd be an enormous impact. Let's say that we legalized marijuana...
The last figure that I read was that 85% of the DEA's budget was spent fighting marijuana.
If it were legalized, overnight, that would mean that the amount of money available to go after cocaine, heroin, crystal meth and prescription opiate trafficking would be increased by about 566%.
The last figure that I read was that 85% of the DEA's budget was spent fighting marijuana.
If it were legalized, overnight, that would mean that the amount of money available to go after cocaine, heroin, crystal meth and prescription opiate trafficking would be increased by about 566%.