... in tax revenue, and severely curtail violence associated with the illegal drug market ("Perils of Pot Prohibition" 2010). The economic arguments for legalizing marijuana make sense. Since President Richard Nixon declared the War on Drugs 40 years ago, Federal, state, and local governments have spent hundreds of billions of dollars fighting drugs. Yet drugs continue to be available at a continuing ... ...

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... logical strategy is to control supply. It is a very simple tactic in which states: if there is no drugs available to the people, then it cannot be abused. Until President Richard Nixon began to apply the Harrison Act in 1972, "little had been done to combat drugs at home. Ten years later, President Ronald Reagan declared war on drugs and expanded the ... ...

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