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Originally Posted by Plan9
And how much money will the system save on not prosecuting and jailing potheads? How much time will LE have available for other things?
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A lot, but you can also count on funding/staffing cuts. Same thing would happen if you stopped funding drunk driving patrols.
There's also lost rev. in seized property. All those sheriff auctions are going to shrink by large %'s.
LE's gonna take a funding hit if MJ is legalized but IMO there's some things we shouldn't be funding. I knew of an elderly couple in Washington state who lost their home to the county because their adult son was growing pot on the property. The DA publicly explained he sure wished there was something he could do but the law is clear and his hands were tied... so they seized the house and sold it. In that county the sheriff and DA's office split the proceeds from such sales with a very small % going to the state. Yeah, no way he could have done a plea bargain... simply out of his control. *cough* bullshit *cough, cough*