Should Marijuana be legalized? Do you think that marijuana should be legalized? Many people think that marijuana should stay illegal in places. But did you know that marijuana can also help people? The way it helps is to reduce harm, provides jobs, and sales will get $1 billion for the government and the military to use. Based on those facts, it should be legalized. Legalizing Marijuana will reduce harm to others and the person using it. Some reasons are, legalization will reduce harm because people try to sneak it in the US. Also, the crimes rates would drop if the U.S. legalized marijuana. Alcohol has a worse crime rate than marijuana. The last reason is, people buy the marijuana could get killed. The person selling could have put something …show more content…
Some reasons to support that are, it will create jobs because legalizing marijuana will bring one of the nation's largest cash crops. The marijuana industry created more than 18,000 new jobs in Colorado last year. The people that trim the leaves can make between $12 to $15 an hour cutting marijuana leaves. Marijuana will raise a lot of money and that money can be used for the military and the government. For example, in California Marijuana sales can gather more than $1 Billion. That can mean that there is new tax revenue. Also, if marijuana was legalized, almost $8 billion would be saved for the government. For the last example, The $8 billion would be used to spend on enforcement, including the FBI, border security, and military. Some people think that marijuana should stay illegal because it a Schedule 1 Drug: A Schedule 1 Drug is a drug that has a high potential of being abused, and that drug or substance has no accepted medical use in the US. Also, because of that people say that there is no "Acceptable Medical Use". Marijuana stops some people and has them think about marijuana used for medicine. But, did you know that Marijuana can help even sometimes cure people with cancer, AIDS, and