Legalization of marijuana
A very common question that creates a lot of controversy is whether or not marijuana should be legalized. Some people want it legalized, but at the same time the others do not agree to that.
Marijuana should be legalized in the US for example, because, simply, prohibition of it does not work or help the country. There is actually no good evidence that keeping marijuana illegal decreases its use.
Legalizing marijuana would benefit deteriorating economy, provide jobs for the unemployed, reduce crime, and free up space in overpopulated jails and prisons.
Actually, the cost of keeping marijuana illegal is very high. There’s the cost of law enforcements, the cost of incarceration of convicted “offenders”, which is increasing, the cost of foster care and social services for children of incarcerated “offenders” and more. The government spend extremely high amount of money in order to chase peaceful people who happen to like getting high. These are the people who go to jail and taxpayers have to foot the bill. A lot of money could be saved if marijuana was illegal. The government could collect taxes on it and have much more money to spend on other important things. Plus, if weed was legalized, that would increase the sale of paraphernalia which could also bring in more tax revenue and increase sales for local businesses as well as provide jobs to the unemployed, reducing the unemployment rate. The government would tax marijuana in the same manner as they tax alcohol and it could be age regulated.
