RT @nprNews: State Tax Revenue from Taxing Cocaine and Marijuana

I recently saw this tweet on NPR news about a study published by a Harvard economist.  However, the NPR article only contained a table of data, so I thought it would be fun to map it out.  Just as the article says, almost every state would profit more from taxing cocaine that from marijuana.  However, what might have been difficult to see in the original table is that most states are clustered together with roughly the same revenue amounts, but the real winners would be FL, TX, CA, and NY.  Please note the author mentions the number of users would likely rise if the drugs were legalized, but estimates don't account for this. 

*If you click on a state on the map, it will highlight the shape on the the other graphs.  If you click and drag your mouse on the scatter plot it will highlight the states.