i was reading the new york times trying to find something to do and a certain article really caught my eyes. "end the war on pot," was the name of the article. this was really interesting, it was about one journalists who went into how pot should be legalized, i might disagree with him but, he brought up a very good point, he said that the USA spends more money on jail and juvenile for drugs then on many public schools. "A Harvard economist, Jeffrey A. Miron, calculates that marijuana could generate $8.7 billion in tax revenue each year if legalized nationally, while legalization would also save the same sum annually in enforcement costs." that's a lot of dough so basically it makes the USA 17 billion dollars every year. but it also raises the point, well the same is with smoking, although it isn't illegal to buy and smoke it could soon be and is this fair, legalize one thing and illegalize another? i don't think so.
this article also caught my eye, it was about the USA and other European countrys are trying to limit the amount of nuclear bombs Iran has. they are proposing to make Iran ship 2/3 more then they already are in uranium. also they would have to bring its nuclear fuel levels down to 20 percent of now which would really lower their ability to make nuclear bombs. this really made me think, if we are enforcing and cracking down on theses middle eastern countrys, why do we still have nuclear bombs. i bet that half of these people we are attacking because they have nuclear bombs would get rid of theirs if we got rid of ours. just a thought though
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