This paper will weigh the pros and cons on each side of this debate and show that although there may be some benefit to legalization, the negative repercussions far outweigh those benefits. ... ("Marijuana resource center," 2013) would beg to differ, "The existing black market for marijuana will not simply disappear if the drug is legalized and taxed." RAND also noted that "there is a tremendous profit motive for the existing black market providers to stay in the market, as they can still cover their costs of production and make a nice profit." Legalizing marijuana would also ...

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The War on Drugs, gangs, and cartels claim thousands of lives a year in the international black market demand for marijuana. ... After all it has been proven that alcohol and tobacco both have far more dangerous health risk and side effects, than marijuana. ... Nature has provided a way for the federal government to stop the stinging, legalizing marijuana, its side effect; saving and creating revenue. ... America is in one of the worst economic crisis since The Great Depression, and this type of spending has helped put this once proud financial juggernaut on its knees. ...

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The War on Drugs, gangs, and cartels claim thousands of lives a year in the international black market demand for marijuana. ... After all it has been proven that alcohol and tobacco both have far more dangerous health risk and side effects, than marijuana. ... Nature has provided a way for the federal government to stop the stinging, legalizing marijuana, its side effect; saving and creating revenue. ... America is in one of the worst economic crisis since The Great Depression, and this type of spending has helped put this once proud financial juggernaut on its knees. ...

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The purpose of this paper is to discuss marijuana and compare both sides of the issue of legalizing marijuana. ... The fact is Blacks and Hispanics who make up only 20 percent of the marijuana smokers in the U.S., but they comprised 58 per cent of the marijuana offenders sentenced under federal law in 1995.2 Critics claim that marijuana is a "gateway drug" but there is no conclusive evidence that the effects of marijuana are causally linked to the subsequent use of other illicit drugs. Statistically, for every 104 Americans who have tried marijuana, there is only one regular user of coca...

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