Animation: What a Legal Pot Economy Would Look Like

Fri, 07/30/2010 - 12:41am | posted by Michael O. Powell

Cheers to Truthout for this concise and entertaining presentation of the fallacy of American drug policy.

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Why do I think the video needs a “citation needed” flag? It’s cute, and I’m ready to buy that legalization = happy people and more tax revenue, but I’d like to see some estimates of tax revenue generated if legalization actually, you know, happened.

For me, it comes down to the math. How much in taxes would we estimate after legalization? Until you have a number, you can’t really make a logical case either for OR against.

Cute cartoon, though.

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Mike Hassinger on Fri, 07/30/2010 - 1:07am.

You could count the number of little cartoon people getting high.

“Philosophy, despite the best obfuscatory intentions of philosophers, occasionally seeps out of the ivory towers and informs our lives.”

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Michael O. Powell on Fri, 07/30/2010 - 3:41am.

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