One argument often made for legalising recreational cannabis is that governments who make the leap can expect a tax windfall.
However, the authors of a new paper published in Canadian Public Policy argue that legal cannabis can in fact have a negative effect on the sale of other controlled substances that are far more lucrative sources of government revenue than pot.
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