Why America Should Legalize Marijuana?

The word "marijuana" has raised eyebrows interested in almost every American home today. Those who oppose the legalization of the plant will automatically find its use to smoke, but those who do not want to use marijuana, believed to be in favor of keeping it illegal. Opposing views on the decriminalization of the plant has caused much controversy during the last twenty years and still remains an important issue. Legalization of marijuana into the United States would drastically reduce crime in our cities and form a more productive society through its positive uses. The war on drugs involved in all levels of society.

Each year, the U.S. government is spending large sums of money for drug control and enforcement of laws enacted to protect the public from the risk of certain drugs. Some argue that the fight against drugs was not necessary and that the society has already lost the war against drugs, and the only way to solve the problem before the end of most of the fighting in general is the decriminalization of marijuana use. William Buckley said: "The pot is bad, but people should not go to jail for smoking." Buckley was a college professor at Columbia University and admitted to smoking marijuana on the national television show in 1973. While Buckley was quoted to say: "There were half a million arrests in connection with the bank in 1973, respectively, which makes understanding what happened breakdown in communication between the public and the police." Over two decades later, Buckley's words still ring true today. Just eight years later, the author talks about legalizing marijuana summed up the feelings of "anti-pot laws activists, saying:" Decriminalization of supporting a growing number of responsible persons who seek a rational and humane solution to too long dominated by myth, emotion and misunderstanding. "

Professor of psychology at the A. Ethen Nadelmann in favor of the legalization of marijuana in America, because he feels that the current policy of control of marijuana are costly and ineffective in combating the drug problem. He argues in the book clash of views that more emphasis should be placed on the addictive drug treatment, rather than on the prohibition of marijuana. "From the standpoint of the criminal justice approach to drugs, all that we have done in the past, are now doing, and talk about in future is inherently limited in their effectiveness ...