Gov. Mitt Romney meets a medical marijuana patient
Clayton Holton of Granite Staters for Medical Marijuana asks Gov. Mitt Romney if he will have seriously ill patients like himself arrested for using medical marijuana with their doctor’s approval.
Clayton Holton of Granite Staters for Medical Marijuana asks Gov. Mitt Romney if he will have seriously ill patients like himself arrested for using medical marijuana with their doctor’s approval.
Here is a Presidential Candidate report card for their positions on medical marijuana and the DEA:
http://granitestaters.com/candidates/
Notice that Ron Paul gets an A+! Oh and read John McCain showing his neoconned ignorance here:
“Well, first of all, you’ll have to show me a case where people are going in and arresting people who are dead and dying . . . I haven’t heard of such a case, nor has anyone I know of heard of such a case, so it must be a very well-kept secret.”
Nice. Way to go. When are we going to “just say no” to the DEA?!
From the Marijuana Policy Project
A new report that MPP co-released yesterday shows that marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers $41.8 billion annually in law enforcement expenses and revenues lost to government at all levels.
The analysis, by researcher Jon B. Gettman, Ph.D., is based primarily on government estimates of the U.S. marijuana supply, prices, and arrests. (MPP and Dr. Gettman made international headlines in December 2006 when we co-released his analysis showing that marijuana is the top cash crop in the U.S.) Click here to read some news coverage of Gettman’s latest report.
Key findings of “Lost Taxes and Other Costs of Marijuana Laws” include:
• Marijuana arrests constitute 5.54% of all U.S. arrests, costing taxpayers $10.7 billion in criminal justice expenses annually.
• The total U.S. marijuana supply is 14,349 metric tons annually, with a retail value of $113 billion.
• Marijuana prohibition diverts the entire $113 billion in sales from the legal economy, costing $31.1 billion in lost tax revenues annually.
This documentation of our nation’s failed marijuana laws comes just after the FBI reported a record 829,627 marijuana arrests in 2006.
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