Might as well make it politics then, no?
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(Yes, I am a part of the RevoLution, coordinating Ron Paul rallies at my college. It is an election year after all, and he may be our only chance to stop Mitt Romney from screwing up the elections).
The benefits of legalizing marijuana:
1.) Reduction in the drug war - less power for the feds, less arbitrary federal government protecting us from ourselves.
2.) Less people in the jail system - most first-time incarcerations are for drug use. While in jail, these "offenders" learn violent criminal acts. If you don't go to jail, you don't network with criminals, you don't build up hate for society.
3.) Hemp use will increase - instead of cotton for your clothing (depletes the soil of Boron), and cutting down trees for your paper (that destroys very old trees which take a long time to grow back), we can use the more durable hemp. Hemp grows quickly, requires fewer soil nutrients, and has more uses (see the practical uses of hemp by using Google - replacing plastics, replacing oil)
4.) Medical marijuana will be in full use - talk about cheaper medications, medical marijuana may cut down on a slew of drugs, used solely to counter the side-effects of other drugs.
5.) It can be taxed - this one you have most likely heard, that a tax on the product will work just as well as outright banning it, but instead of costing us (see points one and two), it will actually get us badly needed tax revenue.
(I'll see if I can come up with more later - I know it is out there)
