Weed Should Be Legalized As It Will Improve Our Economy and Contains Almost No Health Problems

Weed should be legal because it could greatly improve our economy to the point that we would be relieved of the recession and then some. If it was legal the government would save millions of dollars of tax payers money that is wasted on anti-weed purposes. This money is wasted on arresting processing and jailing innocent people who's only crime was possession of marijuana. Legalizing it would also free up hundreds of jail cells that could be used to jail more violent dangerous criminals such as a rapist or murderer. These people oppose a much more dangerous threat to society than someone that smokes a little bit of pot. There are many myths surrounding weed and much about it such as smoking it makes someone stupid and lazy. This is false there are many people who smoke weed, have jobs, love their family, and live completely normal lives and are suddenly jailed and treated like they are dangerous criminal drug addicts. Their kids are deemed to be in dangerous households and put into foster care programs and are ripped from their families which can be extremely harmful to a child. Another myth is that weed is addictive. This is one of the biggest myths about it. There are no addictive properties in weed at all. The worst one can do is get mentally addicted, but you can also get mentally addicted to xbox or anything you can think of. Another myth about it is that it kills your braincells this is very false as they have done plenty of studies on this before and there is no significant evidence to prove this. There has been more studies that have proven that it does not kill braincells. Scientist have put monkeys into an airtight room and pumped it full of THC and it showed no damage to the braincells after 3 weeks or any malformation to the brain at all. What kills the brain cells is when the user holds their breath. Any stoner knows the answer to this just don't hold your hits in as long. It is impossible to O.D. on weed. If you tried to O.D. on weed you would die of smoke suffocation before your brain has had too much THC to handle. More people have died from harmless things such as aspirin or caffeine. Annual American Deaths Caused by Drugs Tobacco…………….. 400,000 Alcohol……………… 100,000 All legal drugs………. 20,000 All illegal drugs…….. 15,000 Caffeine…………….. 2,000 Aspirin……………… 500 Marijuana…………… 0 This list shows how many people die every year from seemingly harmless items. Caffeine is also more addictive than weed is. The reason weed was made illegal in the first place is because a man named William Hearst who was a corporate business owner back in the 1930s and 40s who owned an enormous acreage of forest. Hemp paper was recently discovered to be much more cost efficient and easier to produce than paper from trees. Even the Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. But anyway William Hearst reportedly had a large influence on congress and fearful that the hemp industry would put him out of business pushed congress to make hemp and hemp products illegal. So the government foolishly made it illegal. Making it legal will improve our economy as back before it was illegal it was America's number one cash crop easily. It was grown alongside tobacco in many occasions. It was predicted to be our first billion dollar crop. Legalizing it would also spawn the rise up of many hemp shops, factories, and plantations which would open up a number of jobs. This would get many people of un-employment and working in the hemp industry which is almost guaranteed to be an extremely profitable business and end our recession we are currently in.