Pot prohibition costs Florida at least $200 million per year

Floridians get to free the weed at the ballot box Nov. 5. What’s at stake? Scores of weed arrests, and at least $200 million per year in tax revenue for a massive, newly-legal economy.  Also, tens of millions of dollars more in criminal justice savings from fewer arrests and prison sentences.  That $200 million figure […]

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