Beyond The Broken Spectrum

Michael Duffy does the sums on the extent the Australian Government would be financially better off if we conceded that criminalization of drug use was a lost cause and lifted the prohibition.

Australian governments spend about $4.7 billion a year on the war on drugs. This figure was arrived at using information from the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation and other sources and is an estimate of how much the Government would save and get in tax revenue if illicit drug sales were regulated and taxed the way tobacco is.

Brisbane Times

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