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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brock" data-source="post: 102655" data-attributes="member: 544716">Legalizing marijuana wouldn't really free up the jails, there are not that many people locked away for 'weed' believe it or not.  And also, our nation runs off of trillions of dollars in taxes every year...how is marijuana going to make up for that? just like you said, they only spend millions of dollars on the drug war as a whole.  Thats like pocket change to the government.Drug dealers wouldn't just qimply quit selling because marijuana is legal, they would just simply choose another drug, just like they have always done.  You have to remember that this isnt anything new...the drug trade has been thriving for centuries and centuries, not just the past 100 years.  If you do a little research you would figure out that marijuana, in legal statistics, aint really crap.</blockquote>

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