Topic: DRUGS - on December 13, 2011 at 2:34:00 PM CET
Forget Taxing Marijuana; The Real Money's In Cocaine
A Harvard economist has estimated how much money states would raise by legalizing and taxing marijuana and cocaine.
In a podcast a while back, Harvard's Jeffrey Miron told us that his estimates for what California would bring in from taxing marijuana are much smaller than some of the numbers that are floating around out there (including a $1.4 billion estimate from state officials).
npr.org Podcast: An Economist Gets Stoned wiki/Jeffrey Miron
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