Legalizing Marijuana

Legalizing Marijuana
Pot, dank, joints, blunts, trees, doobies, etc., the list goes on and on. Whatever you want to call it, marijuana is currently illegal in the United States. Whenever marijuana is brought up, it becomes the cause of much commotion and debating. Many people feel it is a gateway drug, and have heard of the negative side effects that are greatly overblown. Although many people feel that legalizing marijuana would case a problem, I disagree. It will greatly reduce the amount of money spent on enforcement, money that could be spent on our schools and other much more serious crimes than possessing or smoking marijuana.
Legalizing marijuana will solve many problems, economic and otherwise. The united states will spend 609 dollars a second, 19.2 billion dollars, on the War against Drugs this year alone. More than half of those are because of marijuana. That's tax money that we pay. And for what? Why is marijuana illegal? In 2001; 400,000 people died as a direct res...