There are many drugs that are legal that are killing people everyday and harming their bodies and the government has gave them the okay sign. Why not give the okay sign to making marijuana legal? Studies have shown that marijuana is more beneficial than harmful. Marijuana is less dangerous than some drugs that are legal, such as alcohol and tobacco. Comparing marijuana to alcohol and tobacco we know for a fact that alcohol causes cirrhosis of the liver, and cigarettes cause lung cancer. And that both of them are carcinogens which speeds up cancer. The only thing that we can point out that marijuana does is causing you to loose your memory, give you a slow reaction time and a high that last for a few hours. Marijuana has been found less dangerous to use. In fact, some doctors, judges, and politicians are saying that it is okay for the use of marijuana. Marijuana show no long-term effect, therefor it should be made legal. .
Marijuana should be legalized because there are no reasons why it should not be legal. If marijuana were legal it would save the government lots of money. Each year in the United States we currently spend billions of dollars to chase peaceful people who happen to like to get high. When marijuana user and dealer get locked up the taxpayer is left to cover the bill. We the taxpayer has to pay for housing, health care, attorney fees, courts costs, and other expenses just to try to keep marijuana off the street, and that is impossible to do. Instead of wasting money trying to lock up the one that are do no harm to no one, the government could make billions of dollars and profit from marijuana because they can collect taxes on it. And there would be lots of money to spend on education and important factors that really matters, than who is getting high. If marijuana were legal there would be more money to spend on important problems.
Marijuana has been illegal since the early 1900's, but lately scientists have figured out that there are some use of marijuana that could benefit people in need.
