MARIJUANA

INCARCERATION

• In Michigan prisons there are about 180-200 prisoners serving time because they were either selling or had possession of cannabis
• $35,000 to house a prisoner annually.
• $35,000 X 180 prisoners= $6,300,000 a year in taxes being paid to jail

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• Colorado was the first state to legalize cannabis
• They collect approximately $70 million in the first year of legalization alone
• Almost 2X the tax revenue they received from alcohol ($42 million)

CRIME RATES