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... ” This is true with the prohibition of marijuana: the use of marijuana should not be a crime, but prohibition makes it one. ... Marijuana should be legalized because the government spends billions of our tax dollars every year in the war against marijuana, the effects of marijuana are not as bad as the government makes them out to be, and without it being legalized, sick patients are denied the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.
If marijuana were legal, much of the drug related crimes would recede, and the government would save billions. Enforcing marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers an estimated $10 billion annually and results in the arrest of more than 734,000 individuals per year. ... The government would not need to spend so much money on the DEA, anti-drug ads, police, court cases, judges and lawyers to prosecute the accused, and prisons to house and feed the convicted if marijuana were legal. ... Non-violent marijuana offenders would be released from prison, easing prison crowding.
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