First, marijuana would be safer because customers would know what they were buying. Too often in the black market, dealers lace marijuana with foreign substances and other drugs (e.g., chronic) to produce various effects. Since marijuana would be safer, health care costs would subside. Second, the government

would receive valuable revenue from taxing the product. In addition, the government would not have to fund a considerable portion of the multi-billion dollar war against drugs. These savings could be redirected toward solving more critical social problems such as violence, poverty, and under funded public education. Legalization would unclog the court system considerably. Since fewer people would need trials, justice would flow much faster and more important cases would receive proper attention, allowing the judges and the juries to make more considered opinions. The elimination of countless trials would help solve the problem of prison overcrowding and enable the police to focus their efforts on more serious crimes such as murder and rape. There for, laws that make marijuana illegal have the undesirable effect of creating organized criminal activity, a fact that accounts for a lot of street violence.

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