<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ebda952a-960d-423c-bbc1-403dfd3bae57/F013B6BF-294A-4BE7-9473-D655F78DF1B9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.hightimes.com/ht/legal/content.php?bid=733&aid=3" href="http://www.hightimes.com/ht/legal/content.php?bid=733&aid=3" style="font-size: 11px;">www.hightimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hightimes.com/ht/legal/content.php?bid=733&aid=3"><DIV> Add it all up, and marijuana prohibition costs the US $42 billion every year. This is information that <A target="_blank" href="http://www.hightimes.com/ht/legal/content.php?bid=663&aid=3" linkindex="74">congressional representatives</A>, <A target="_blank" href="http://www.hightimes.com/ht/legal/content.php?bid=710&aid=3" linkindex="75">presidential candidates</A>, and policy makers need to know. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hightimes.com/ht/legal/content.php?bid=733&aid=3"> Bottom line – marijuana prohibition is a costly failure. Is there any better argument for legalization? <A target="_blank" href="http://www.hightimes.com/ht/legal/content.php?bid=506&aid=3" linkindex="77">Of course there is</A>! </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hightimes.com/ht/legal/content.php?bid=733&aid=3"><DIV> Marijuana arrests account for 5.54% of all arrests in the United States, which spends $193 billion annually on its criminal justice system. As such, marijuana arrests account for $10.7 billion annually in criminal justice expenses. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hightimes.com/ht/legal/content.php?bid=733&aid=3"> It’s not a question of how much tax revenue could be gained if marijuana were taxed in a legal market, the important point of this report is how much tax revenue is lost every year because of current policies and laws. If the $113 billion spend on marijuana were spend on other (legal) consumer goods, it would produce revenue in the form of income taxes, taxes on corporate profits, and social security taxes.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F013B6BF-294A-4BE7-9473-D655F78DF1B9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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