“Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.” - Richard M. Nixon. The concept of legalizing marijuana is nothing new. In fact, former President Richard Nixon advocated for its legalization back in the 1960s. The legalization of recreational marijuana has the potential to bring in huge amounts of commerce to state and federal governments through taxation, as well as create a large number of jobs. Recreational marijuana can be heavily taxed and could bring in hundreds of millions of dollars of tax money following a nationwide legalization. Marijuana is one of the safest drugs known to man. It is in fact much safer than alcohol which is legally available for sale for anyone 21 years old or older. Alcohol has a fatal dose, whereas marijuana does not. This means that you can drink yourself to the point of death. Marijuana however has no fatal does which means you can not overdose on it. Legalizing …show more content…
One component of this is that in places where medical and/or recreational marijuana is legal alcohol sales have dropped. Alcohol os know to instil violence, whereas marijuana calms most people down rather than riling them up like alcohol. Despite the theories that marijuana instills crime in communities as well as leads to harder drugs, the legalization of recreational marijuana has been shown to create jobs and stimulate the economy, reduce violent crime and steer people away from harder drugs by providing a much safer alternative.
Legalizing marijuana would bring millions of jobs to the United States. As well as bringing in huge amounts of tax money that can be used to improve public commodities such as roads and public school systems, a team of economics experts predict that, “The study also calculates