Legalization of Marijuana

In legalizing marijuana, the benefits will outweigh the negative repercussions. This aticle will prove and demonstrate how legalization of the drug and giving the federal government the power to regulate and control all sales help tremendously in many ways. Legalization will help benefit marijuana and no users similarly in the way that it will relieve smokers from the burden of having their drug of choice be label an illegal substance which will hopefully deter the negative connotation that marijuana users currently get. Also, non smokers will benefit from having safer streets, less illegal dealers, and a decrease in the underground drug market. In addition, marijuana legalization will help to speed up research, testing, and generalized introduction of marijuana as a medical predecessor. There has already by overwhelming evidence and an influx of doctors prescribing the drug, yet many feel total legalization will help push things along in terms of its general acceptance amongst medical professionals. Additionally, with legalization in the form described above, the economy will benefit greatly from new jobs, addition revenue, tax money, and the municipal savings. Lastly, legalization will help to free up an overwhelmed criminal justice system. Our police officers, court rooms, judicial personnel, and jails, will all be relieved from the burden of having too much to handle simply because a majority of today’s crime is focused around the war on drugs, namely marijuana. It is evident that legalization will bring about change for the better. If we continue to allow the federal government to sanction marijuana as an illegal drug, we are only depriving our selves, the economy, and all tax paying individuals from all the good that marijuana has to offer.