The legalization of Marijuana in the United States would benefit all Americans.

Thank you for your response! First of all, it is rather unlikely that huge farms and plantations will become the main production method of Cannabis. It is a summer crop, and it doesn't grow well much south of Northern California (sorry if my locations are biased towards the west coast, I suppose that would be like Maryland or Virginia on the east), being grown as far north as Canada, as it needs long days in the summer. Cannabis is one of the easiest crops to grow indoors. Now, indoor growing is a bit more expensive, but it provides for quality control, higher volume, and year round growth. So, it would end up being a better and less expensive (especially in the winter). So people would move that to the cities so they don't have to ship as much. Granted, there are cities in Kansas (I'm terribly sorry, when I said big cities, I meant the ones that people are generally moving to. That was completely my fault. Sorry), but Bill lives in a smaller town which wants to turn into a not-so-small city (hence the financial woes), so it wouldn't be near him anyway. It would drive people from his town to the city, where Marijuana will inevitably be cheaper because it won't have to be shipped. Even then, the Marijuana business would still focus on larger cities and cities like Portland (AKA Pot-land). You still don't like my example with Bill? Fair enough. If cannabis is legalized, it will be much easier to create a fiber that has been catching on quite a bit recently. Some cannabis plants are cultivated not for the drug, but for Hemp. Hemp is a very nice fiber which, many say, would be more popular than cotton, had it not been so regulated because of the associated drug. Hemp is much less expensive than cotton, but it is of comparable or even better quality. It used to be used quite a bit, the word "Canvas" even deriving from the word "Cannabis." You might be thinking, "Alex, you are one of the worst debaters ever! You don't argue against something and then talk about how wonderful it is. That's just stupid." Well, maybe I am a bit stupid, but I'm not dumb. That hemp really sounds like a great fiber. Now go tell that to the cotton industry. When people are seeing T-shirts that are half as expensive as they used to be because it's made with hemp, of course they're going to buy it. The cotton industry would not be feeling so good. Incidentally, hemp can also be used in paper. The paper is much more expensive than regular wood-pulp paper, but it's also much higher quality. Once again, the paper industry would certainly not benefit from the legalization of Marijuana. By the way, it is already legal to grow cannabis for hemp, but it isn't widely done, because it's regulated so it doesn't turn into a marijuana plantation, and there is also a negative thought when it's associated with Marijuana. Legalizing it would change that. My opponent has raised a very interesting and thought provoking debate. I came in thinking it would be really easy to negate the resolution, and I was proven wrong. I would like to take this conclusion as an opportunity to thank my opponent for making this debate so much more enjoyable than it could have been. However well my opponent may have argued, though, I still showed more than one instance which negates the resolution. Therefore, there is no reason not to vote CON. Thank you. Sources-- Wikipedia-Cannabis Wikipedia-Cannabis Cultivation Wikipedia-Hemp