> The Australian Government reported that recent "analysis by Access
> Economics estimates that spending on illegal drugs in Australia
> amounts to $7 Billion per year, Seventy per cent of the spending on
> illegal drugs is cannabis" as there has never been a lethal over does
> of cannabis record world wide we offer the following for your
> consideration.
>
> The Government registers unemployed, invalid pensions, or age
> pensioners, one person to cultivate 30 to 40  Cannabis Plants to
> produce  5 kilos of heads per year, one person to pack I gram of
> cannabis total 5,000, two person to retail 5,000 deals at $20.00 plus
> $2.00. Gst.
>
> Out of $100,000 sales the grower is paid $20,000, the packer paid $20,
> 000 and the two  retailer also $20,000 each per year, instead of
> welfare payments, leaving $20,000 left over as tax revue, If we class
> this as  "1 Unit" employing four people current receiving welfare
> payments, currently around $13,000 per person, Total $52,000. per year
> in Australia, also  resulting in these four employers persons being
> $7,000 better off.
>
> If there were 10 units operating this would save the Australian
> Government around $520,000 per Year,  in welfare payments, plus a
> windfall $200,000 in tax, plus $10,000 in GST.
>
> I ask How many Units would be required to equal Seventy per cent of
> the $7 Billion spent he spending on illegal drugs in Australian,
>
> How many unemployed persons would this system employ ?

> How much money would the Government save in welfare payments ?

> How much extra tax would be raised

>
> Hoping You can Help with the answers.
> Ps I have no idea how many Zero's are in a billion