Like cigarettes, if refer was legalized, the government could make a great deal of money. They could also save a lot of money. ... If our government were to legalize marijuana we would spend less money for the war on drugs, and make a ton of profit from sales. ... Using hemp to make paper would also help stop deforestation and conceivably save some natural habitats. The revenue made from legalization could really help our economy by creating lots of jobs and bringing much more money into circulation. ...

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In Ibsen's story, Nora breaks the law in order to save her husband's life. ... Nora saved her husband's life, and whatever laws she broke in doing so should be disregarded, except of course if she put someone else's life in danger. ... He needs to have his father confirm a sum of money that he is giving to Bianca for their marriage, so he has his servant dress up and pretend to be his father. Although he is lying to Baptista, Bianca's father, he is still doing good by giving the money and marrying Bianca, even if the money isn't "legitimate". ...

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Legalizing Marijuana would help the United States in revenue with the taxation in sales and could create millions each month and also save money from drug wars. ... All this extra money can be used to fund programs and decrease the spending used to fight against the war on drugs. Smith states that with bringing marijuana out from the black markets and into the public can save the country money from spending millions of dollars on law enforcement from investigating drug dealers and trade (Smith, line57). ... Government and state officials wouldn't have to waste money cracking down on drug ...

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Thirty years after the law was passed and girls still get 1.1 million less chances to participate in high school sports than men (save). They get 133 million dollars less college athletic scholarships and 38 percent fewer opportunities to participate in sports at the college level (save). Women make up 53 percent of the students attending division one colleges (save). Despite this fact women athletes still aren't receiving equal treatment (save). They only get 36 percent of the total athletic operating budgets and 32 percent of the money spent to recruit new athletes (save). ...

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It will save the state tons of money because of how much it costs to process and incarcerate someone for 30 days versus in New York where a 100 dollar fine is the equivalent. ... Of the four states that have legalized marijuana they look past the effects that the drug can have on our society and look right to the money. Decriminalizing cannabis can save governments boatloads of money though reduction of processing and incarceration. ... Provided these other states are not worried about the money that's freed up they are focused on the profit in the legalization. ... The senator also beli...

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The more money the government receives is money that they can put towards the education of how marijuana effects the human mind and body. ... The United States economy would gain revenue with its production and result in educating the public with product knowledge and possibly save lives. ... In one year, about 50 billion dollars on law enforcement could be saved if drugs were legalized (231-232). The money spent focuses on drugs in general; however, ma! rijuana is one of the leading drugs causing this money usage. ...

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The second important reason that marijuana should be legal is that it would save the government a lot of money. ... Taxpayers money goes towards paying for food, housing, healthcare, attorneys fees, court costs and other expenses to lock these so called criminals up. In addition if marijuana were legal the government would be able to place taxes on it and use that money to pay for effective drug education programs and other important causes. ...

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Legalizing drugs might increase the number of addicts, but prohibition is not going to stop it from happening, therefore I think they might as well quit wasting there time and money looking for drug criminals and traffickers and start spending it on other things such as health benefits and education, things like that. ... With the large sum of money saved from selling drugs could go towards promoting several different programs on the effects of addictive and mind-altering drugs. ... It is still yet to be expected that some relatively low-paid police and other government officials and some hig...

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A lot of countries are neglecting child labor due to them already being in poor conditions and not having enough money to pay for labor. ... Many parents can't afford for the kid(s) to go to school, so they let them work and earn very little amounts of money for hours of work. ... Eradicating child labor would save so many lives and it would also give every the same opportunity. ... This will help people to take active roles and donate money. ... The "Bill and Melinda Gates" is one of the biggest foundations and they are helping raise money for Zero Child Labor everyday. ...

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In his determination to save the coming generation, he was prepared even to face single-handed the Chinese scholars of the country as a whole. ... On the economic side, Fukuzawa also believed that the way West was dealing money was right, which was expenditure and accumulation are equal and should be dealt with in an equal way.[4] In order to be rich, people must make money and spend money, which makes the economic circle, so that everyone is getting rich. However, in the East, most people just know how to save money, don't know how to spend and others only know how to spend money without...

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Taxes from the legalized selling of marijuana could be used to help those who have problems with more seriously harmful drugs also the money that the government spends on enforcing the marijuana laws could be used in the same way. ... (www.drug-statistics.com) if the Canadian government was to legalize marijuana they would stand to make an enormous amount of profit from the taxes looking at the amount of money coming from marijuana in BC. This money could be used to help with more illicit drug trade with stuff like cocaine and heroin and funding overall drug use prevention and treatment progr...

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Yes I will agree that if any of these substances are abused, various negative effects can affect the user, but with marijuana (with the proper funding from the government) can be used for medical benefits, money used toward the "War on Drugs" can be used somewhere more of a necessity, decrease crime rate, and mounts of money to the economy if legalized. ... If legalized, marijuana can save the United States approximately $8.7 billion dollars (Eco). Money that has been adding up from each fiscal year that the Federal Drug Control budget uses to keep the use marijuana "a state o...

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Legalizing marijuana would definitely increase the amount of money in circulation within the United States. ... That is simply too much money being virtually wasted on a cause that seems to have no end. Our country could save countless amounts of dollars even if marijuana is legalized for medical uses only. ... Less marijuana is used and more money is gained. ... I"m sure we all like saving money and legalizing marijuana would be a sure way to do so. ...

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In our lives we face many things, like stress, stress from work stress from our families or from health or money. ... EXPENSES: Now these advertising expenses will be much more effective and cheaper than all the money that is put into the war on drugs. ... Not to mention that 57% or more people in the jails will not be there which will save us billions. Money that we can put towards education, finding a cure for Aids and Cancer and maybe even Parkinson's disease. ...

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Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) who chairs the Senate subcommittee stated "WWe are wasting tax dollars and throwing money at a problem without even knowing what we are getting in return" (Bennett, 2011). ... Miron's findings break down the revenue savings into different distinctive areas. 7.7 billion dollars would be saved annually just by ending the enforcement efforts to maintain marijuana's prohibition. ... So it is not an issue of money spent or money taken that holds the prohibition of marijuana strong throughout the United States but the perceptions the public has of marijuana...

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This would raise a lot of money for the government and maybe even be a cause to lower income taxes and even property taxes. ... This would reduce the amount of salaries being paid to these drug officials and save the taxpayers a lot of money. ... This also would mean less of the taxpayer's money going to fund these so-called marijuana criminals. ...

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The colossal amount of money spent each year on prostitute prevention could be spent on more urgent issues, which is exactly what the San Francisco Task Force on Prostitution found. ... I think that the highest paying customers for prostitution is us Canadians, in the money we put into fighting this futile cause.2 Instead of putting millions of dollars into stopping this consensual act, the money saved and made from the legalization of prostitution can be spent on fighting child prostitution and coerced prostitution. ... Their efforts saved hundreds of lives and provided treatment t...

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Taxing marijuana sales will bring in a lot of money and help the economy. ... More than 300 economists have signed a petition calling attention to the findings of a paper by Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron, which suggests that if the government legalized marijuana it would save $7.7 billion annually by not having to enforce the current prohibition on the drug. The report added that legalization would save an additional $6 billion per year if the government taxed marijuana at rates similar to alcohol and tobacco. ...

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That is the amount of money spent on the War on Drugs each year-$1,271 per second spent on law enforcement, incarceration, and interdiction. ... Legalizing marijuana would free up law enforcement resources, save the government billions of dollars, generate billions more in tax revenue, and severely curtail violence associated with the illegal drug market ("Perils of Pot Prohibition" 2010). ... Harvard University economist Jeffrey Miron calculates that legalization of marijuana could save the U.S. at least $13 billion annually in law enforcement costs while generating more than $6.3 ...

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Making drugs legal will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement efforts to apprehend and prosecute users and sellers of marijuana. ... We can save money that is spent to send the sellers and users to prison and decrease the prison population. ...

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This would save tax money to be used elsewhere. The unemployment rate would drop greatly and much of the money unaccounted for in the economy would show up once again. ... One problem that could be addressed is how the government would make money if people could get their hands on seeds. ... The government is also greedy so why not just take advantage of a chance to make some money and go out and legalize it! ...

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Not only does the crowding of the US courts weight heavily on the US, but so does the amount of tax money that goes into the housing and feeding death row inmates. ... The amount of money spent on a death row inmate is incomparable to the average annual cost of forty seven thousand dollars to take care of one regular inmate per year. ... Why does our government spend so much money taking care of death row inmates when that money could go to better use, like giving it to help other the inmate who are not going to spend the rest of their lives in jail or using it towards our national debt? By el...

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There is nothing Americans and our government love more than money; after all, it's what makes the world go round, right? Legalizing this substance would save the government and its tax payer's money by decreasing the number of incarcerated persons who remain imprisoned for offenses related to marijuana. ... This money will then be turned around and re-invested into primary and secondary education, as well as narcotic awareness programs. ...

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Probably they didn't have any money to get bread to feed their children because they don't have the resources to get a job. With all of these government agencies, you would think that there would be at least one to pull in people who are on Welfare and get them jobs instead of just giving them food stamps and some money. ... Just like Kaiser hospital is big on preventative medicine so that they could save money, I think that we should do the same. ...

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According to a PBS interview with Eric Schlosser, 1 in 6 Americans in prison are there on marijuana-related charges (including simple possession), wasting taxpayer money and taking up prison space. ... " If the amount of incarcerations due to possession of marijuana was lowered, it would be economically beneficial because we could be saving money on the court and maintenance it takes to imprison someone. ... Economically, the state governments of Colorado and Washington will benefit from the legalization of marijuana due to the taxation of the item, and the money saved from reducing crime...

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