Carter Wright

Nkenna Onwuzuruoha
English 1010
April 2, 2014
Annotated Bibliography
Miron, Jeffery. The Economics of Drug Legalization. Cambridge, MA: Department of
Economics Harvard University, 2012.
This is research that Jeffery Miron has done on the impact of legalizing marijuana. Miron
is a professor at Harvard University in economics. Therefore, he has really taken a view
on how this affects the United States in an economic matter. He also addresses many
opposing argument and gives information that address those. It was useful to hear others
arguments because it gave me other viewpoints to research to see if there was more there
than Miron was giving them credit for. Miron gives very relevant statistics that will be
useful to use in my research paper and also numerous views I had not thought of before.
Evans, David G. "US News." 30 October 2012. April 2014.
The author in this article tries to take a more center of the field approach of being against
legalizing marijuana. He does not want to come off like a total far right prohibitionist. He
is taking into thought the ideas and facts that promote the legalization of marijuana and
then bringing into perspective what a parent would want for their children. I like this
article because the author is not some super conservative person that wont hear any
conflicting facts about his stance. He is a well-informed citizen making a judgment for
him and what many similar to him believe. He also gives some great statistics that will be
useful to writing the paper.
Waldock, Kathrine and Jeffery Miron. "The Budgetary Impact of Ending Drug Prohibition." 27
September 2010. CATO Institute. 26 April 2014
<http://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/budgetary-impact-ending-drug-
prohibition>.
This research article goes over in detail exactly what my papers topic is. There is a lot of
information that is not pertinent to my topic, but the information that the authors bring to
light are exactly what I was hoping to find. Also they cite where they got all there
information so it has served as a pool to get additional information on the topic. A
desirable attribute to this source is that it is not opinion based, but research based with
opinions. It goes into detail the percentages of how much of the federal and state devote
to drug prohibition.
Department of Revenue. "Division of Taxation." 2014. Colorado.gov. 26 April 2014
<http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/Revenue/REVX/1251649127637>.
I used this website strictly for facts. I found what the sales tax rate for marijuana is. I also
found out what the normal state sales tax is. These are important facts because Colorado
is in a way a trial run of legalizing marijuana. I wanted to bring to light how that state is
taxing it compared to its normal sales tax rate. Time will tell whether or not legalizing
marijuana will help their economy.
California State Legislature. Legislative Analyst's Office. 2012. 19 April 2014
<http://www.lao.ca.gov/PolicyAreas/CJ/6_cj_inmatecost>.
I used this source for strictly facts. I found here what the average yearly cost for an
inmate in the state of California was. This is useful to me because I am going to be
looking at the costs of prohibiting marijuana. One of those costs includes the time that
offenders spend in local jail or prison. I liked this website because it was pretty much
financial statements. It was not trying to sway the readers opinions; it was just the state
of California stating where their funds went to incarcerate an inmate.