But Donovan, that would cost the beverage industries billions! A cheap, safer marijuana high would lower the income from more expensive alcohol purchases. It would also lower the need for law enforcement personnel to investigate and prosecute drunken drivers and disturbers/fighters.<br>
<br>Remember: Disabling, disruptiive alcohol high good! Calming marijuana high bad! Bad, bad dog!<br><br>w.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Donovan Arnold <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com" target="_blank">donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><span>I think the costs of keeping these 18 year-olds unemployed, uneducated, and on government assistance for the next seven years until their record is clean is the biggest waste of resources than anything else. </span></div>
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</div><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">From:</span></b> Moscow Cares <<a href="mailto:moscowcares@moscow.com" target="_blank">moscowcares@moscow.com</a>><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">To:</span></b> Moscow Vision 2020 <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020@moscow.com</a>> <br>
<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">Sent:</span></b> Monday, May 21, 2012 4:20 PM<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] [corrected] Hmmm . . .<br></font></div><div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>Courtesy of the "Public Records" section of today's (May 21, 2012) Mocow-Pullman Daily News.</div>
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<div><a rel="nofollow">7:30 a.m.</a> - An 18-year-old man was arrested via prosecutor's summons for alleged possession of marijuana less than 40 grams.</div></div>
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<div><a rel="nofollow">8:27 a.m.</a> - An 18-year-old man was arrested via prosecutor's summons for alleged possession of marijuana less than 40 grams.</div></div>
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<div><a rel="nofollow">10:07 a.m.</a> - An 18-year-old woman was arrested via prosecutor's summons for alleged possession of marijuana less than 40 grams.</div></div></span><span>-----------------------------------</span>
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<div>Two questions, V-Peeps . . . </div>
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<div>- How much ya figger it's costin' the Whitman County tax payers to arrest, prosecute, and incarcerate these three misdemeanants?</div>
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<div>- How much tax revenue ya figger that the state of Washington would have realized had those (approximately) 120 grams of marijuana been legalized, regulated, and taxed?</div>
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<div>Seeya round town, Moscow.</div>
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<div>Tom Hansen</div>
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<div>"If not us, who?</div>
<div>If not now, when?"</div>
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<div>- Unknown</div>
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