Mexico Drug War: Your Thoughts?

[Farmageddon]

mrstickball said:

@Farmageddon:

CATO produced a white paper on a savings analysis last year: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12192

Their findings are as follows:

• $41.3 billion savings in government expenses (lower incarceration rates from de-criminalization saving millions of people from going to prision on the taxpayer's dime, no monies spent on War on Drugs, ect)
• $46.7 billion in tax revenues per year from tax rates similar to tobacco and alcohol

This assumes all drugs. Most of the savings comes from de-criminalizing the harder drugs which are the focus of more interdiction efforts.

Nice, thanks.