[Vision2020] [corrected] Hmmm . . .

[Donovan Arnold]

I think the costs of arresting and imprisoning MJ offenders should come out the retirement pensions of lawmakers since they are taking it out of the taxpayers. They don't need to legalize it, they just need to put a fine for possession with less than 40 grams without a medical card.
 
I think the costs of keeping these 18 year-olds unemployed, uneducated, and on government assistance for the next seven years until their record is clean is the biggest waste of resources than anything else. 
 
Donovan J. Arnold

From: Moscow Cares <moscowcares at moscow.com>
To: Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 4:20 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] [corrected] Hmmm . . .


Courtesy of the "Public Records" section of today's (May 21, 2012) Mocow-Pullman Daily News.

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WSU POLICE
Thursday
7:30 a.m. - An 18-year-old man was arrested via prosecutor's summons for alleged possession of marijuana less than 40 grams.
8:27 a.m. - An 18-year-old man was arrested via prosecutor's summons for alleged possession of marijuana less than 40 grams.
10:07 a.m. - An 18-year-old woman was arrested via prosecutor's summons for alleged possession of marijuana less than 40 grams.----------------------------------- 

Two questions, V-Peeps . . . 

- How much ya figger it's costin' the Whitman County tax payers to arrest, prosecute, and incarcerate these three misdemeanants?

- How much tax revenue ya figger that the state of Washington would have realized had those (approximately) 120 grams of marijuana been legalized, regulated, and taxed?

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"If not us, who?
If not now, when?"

- Unknown

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