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M grants from the federal government fund various mazijuana eradication programs. These total $360,900, so the one-third matching funds would be approximately $110,000. The costs of enforcement of distribution laws appeaz to be approximately $3 million. Thus the total costs for enforcing all of the marijuana laws aze in the $9 to $10 q million range.14 Enforcement efforts should restrict the supply of an illegal substance to such an ,r extent that they affect the price of that product. Therefore it is useful to report prices for various amounts of marijuana, which is done in Table 5. Figure 1, plots the "real" price of marijuana in Honolulu, that is the price of marijuana net of inflation. The real price indicates what its cost is relative to the other prices of goods that consumers buy. The price series indicates a 12% drop in the real price of one ounce of high quality marijuana between 1994 and 2003. Given vazious estimates of the relationship between marijuana prices and consumption, this would suggest a 6% increase in mazijuana consumption. 14 A minimum of $8 million, plus other legal costs. Miron (2005) estimates that the total cost of marijuana prohibition in Hawaii is $22 million. The differences between his estimates and these found here are first, I estimate police resources at $4 million while Miron estimates them at $2.7 million. The reason for this is that Miron reduces these arrests to stand alone an•ests, a procedure I believe is flawed in Hawaii for reasons outlined above. Second, Miron was unable to find data on the percentage of possession r convictions for marijuana and assumes it was equal to the percentage of trafficking convictions. In turn he estimates trafficking convictions at 10.9 percent, which he then multiplies by the judicial budget for 2002. In this report it was possible to determine actual possession hearings. It was further assumed that all trafficking arrests were heard in the following yeaz. The difference is substantial. Miron estimates judicial costs at ,w $19.6 million, while using the actual numbers found in the Hawaii State Judiciazy Reports were in the $1 million range. In terms of incarceration, Miron estimates that 1 'r percent of the penal system's budget is used for incazcerating marijuana prisoners. His estimate is $1.96 million. In this report the actual number of prisoners are used and multiplied by per capita prisoner costs. The result is $910,000. Although the results aze ~ different from Miron's estimates, it should be noted that the difference lies in the fact that a large proportion of the court's resources aze not used for marijuana enforcement. .r 10