be saved. Last year there were 400,000 arrests due to possession or usage of marijuana. If it was legal there would have been 0 arrests in America, and a whole lot of money saved. The average time served in prison for selling marijuana is four years. Think about that for a second… Yes, that’s right. That is three years longer than you serve for rape or manslaughter (www.legalize.com). Marijuana has also been called the “gateway” drug. But no one has ever proved that marijuana leads to other drugs. Yes, if you look at the statistics one will find that marijuana smokers has a greater chance to get into heavier drugs. But on the other hand, it also show that people who drink alcohol has even a greater chance than the marijuana users to slip into serious drug abuse.As this conflict carries on, you have to look at the other side of it: Marijuana is bad!If marijuana were open for all medical help, the country would turn upside down. Everyone knows how de-motivated one gets from smoking marijuana. You become a lazy coach potato. Work wouldn’t get done, and lots of people would loose their jobs. Marijuana needs to be strictly forbidden for all people. There shouldn’t be any medical marijuana, because if one has it the others want it too. Either you pay for the police force to take it off the streets, or you pay for the drug. If it was legal you would spend that same tax money straight to the dealer, or in the store. God hopes it won’t go that far. Marijuana is a “gateway” drug. So is alcohol. If one smokes frequently, he/she will sooner or later start to get tired with the same “high” every time. So, eventually when one reaches that point he/she will turn to a heavier drug, like cocaine. That is the major danger with smoking marijuana. It all goes together, marijuana leads to heavy drugs, and heavy drugs leads to doing crimes to finance the abuse. So, in the long run the non-smo...
