Marijuana Should be Legalized for Recreational Use

*I'm glad you brought that up, and I will address this concern in this round immediately in a sequential manner before proceeding to my points._________________________________________________________________________________________Concerning Accessibility of Cannabis-If cannabis was legal, like alcohol, it would obviously have an age requirement. Also, it would be handled by less shady and more responsible people, in pharmacies, and not by the current drug dealers, who'd sell them to anyone. Instead, these people who sell marijuana would ask for ID before selling marijuana to a customer, just like with alcohol. Hypothetically, they will never sell cannabis to "kids". -The only way people nowadays can obtain cannabis in the US, is through illegal drug dealers. If Marijuana was completely legal in the US, THERE WOULD BE NO DRUG DEALERS, because everyone can get it at a pharmacy or a shop. They wouldn't have to rely on drug dealers. Without drug dealers, no one will sell cannabis to kids until they reach the required age. -However, it is not to say that kids cannot get their hands on marijuana. It is plausible for them to obtain marijuana from someone like their older siblings or parents. -Therefore, if marijuana was legalized, the accessibility of cannabis for kids will actually DECREASE, if not remain constant._______________________________________________________________________________________Now I shall proceed to my points.Healthwise:-Marijuana isn't as bad for your health as most people think. Studies have shown that casual marijuana smoking is not harmful to your lungs, and that it possibly can even increase lung capacity (which is good). -While it does have potential negative effects on your health, they are much less severe than alcohol and tobacco, which ARE legal. According to statistical analysis done by researchers, cannabis does a LOT more harm than alcohol and tobacco, which are legal drugs. -So my question to Con is: If alcohol and tobacco are legal but harms people more than cannabis, which hardly harms anyone at all, why can't cannabis be legal? http://www.livescience.com...http://edition.cnn.com...Crime Reduction due to Legalization-Marijuana use is not a serious crime. It has been established earlier that that marijuana use has less negative effects than alcohol and tobacco, which are legal drugs. -If Marijuana is legalized, it allows police to focus on actual crimes; crimes that are actually serious/dangerous/harmful to people, rather than people smoking marijuana and hasn't hurt anyone.-A huge problem in the United States today is that there have been too many arrests and too many people in jail. Of the people in jail, 3/4 of a million people were arrested for marijuana. These people have done nothing wrong, yet they're in jail. Furthermore, a lot of these people were framed. There have been cases where good samaritans find cannabis on the ground and give it to the police, who arrest these good people because they held cannabis. This is unfair and a waste of money for the government to fund their time in jail. -Therefore, by legalizing cannabis, less people are in jail, which solves the problem I mentioned earlier about too many people in jail/http://www.rawstory.com...;http://www.cnbc.com...;http://www.huffingtonpost.com..._______________________________________________________________I will leave with this for now. Thank you Con for accepting my challenge. I plan to make more points in future rounds.