“The decriminalization of pot also stands to remove a funding source for police: property forfeitures from drug dealers. Such funding is ‘going up in smoke,’ The Wall Street Journal reports.  Of the $6.5 billion in asset forfeitures in drug cases from 2002-2012, marijuana accounted for $1 billion, the Journal says, citing data from the U.S. Justice Department.  And while most cash generated from drug-related property forfeitures goes to the law enforcement agency that made the bust, tax money from legal marijuana sales goes to state and local governments. Police may get only a share of that money, or none at all.”

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/10/261476346/side-effect-of-legal-pot-police-budgets-take-a-hit

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