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details about the drug have been broadcasted on the news, printed about on newspapers and magazines, also the government in some two states has legalized it for medicinal use. The legalization of marijuana can greatly help the economy and has many medicinal uses, for that reason I completely support the legalization of the drug. There are many economic and medicinal advantages to the use of the drug marijuana and it definitely should be legalized or partially legalized nation wide.
The legalization of marijuana can help the economy grow greatly because once legalized marijuana transactions would be taxed; taking away marijuana from the black market would also help the underground transactions decrease. Also if marijuana were to be legalized the price would drop by almost 50%, which would take the drug dealers off the even wrecked families (http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/pros_cons/pot/pot3.html). The problem with the government saying that it would cause all of those problems is that the government has already legalized alcohol nation wide. In 1980, due to health care/loss of productivity the combination of all drugs (not just marijuana) cost the U...