Legalize drugs. Tax revenue from the sales would balance the budget and provide addiction prevention programs like taxes on alcohol and ciggaretes and you also take the drugs away from the black market and create legal jobs.
Can't happen, Kap, all those private prisons need prisoners.
Did anyone note that today, 02/26/09, the Obama Administration told the DEA to back off from raiding California's medical marajuana stores?
Also, a bill in the California Assembly to do exactly what
Kap suggests was introduced this week.