es because the marijuana cigarettes would be taxed, similar to tobacco cigarettes. Also companies producing marijuana cigarettes would pay a universal income tax applicable to all companies.Although legalizing marijuana would produce a lot of money for the government, criminals would not give up on their drug dealing empires. Instead of selling marijuana to America's youth, they would boost the market for harder drugs such as cocaine and heroin. These harder drugs would then become the popular drugs among youth. Mike , a daily marijuana smoker feels that "I partly smoke weed as a rebellion against my parents, and authorities. If it were legal, sure I'd still smoke, but then I would have to find something else to do that my parents didn't like".Legalizing marijuana would not only produce money for the government; it would help the environment also. Hemp is the family that marijuana is a part of and it is also illegal to grow. First, an acre of hemp can produce as much as four times more paper than an acre of trees thus reducing the amount of damage to the already depleted rain forests and wildlife habitats (HEMP). Also, there are much fewer caustic and toxic chemicals used to make paper from hemp as compared to the amount of chemicals used to produce paper from trees. Secondly hemp can replace cotton in most textiles, and this is advantageous for many reasons. Hemp naturally repels insects and weeds and therefore little or no pesticides would be used. Cotton uses 50% of all the pesticides used in the United States and therefore substituting hemp for cotton would drastically reduce the amount of pesticide use. (Marijuana report) Finally, hemp requires little water, is easy on the soil and can be grown in all 50 states.Legalization of marijuana for economic causes is a good reason, but unfortunately people will abuse this privilege and smoke excessive amounts of the substance. The smoke from marijuana is much more harmful than that of ci...
