The final crucial rumor among these myths is the false belief that crime will increase if marijuana becomes legal. Allen St. Pierre, Assistant National Director of the National Organization for the Reformation of Marijuana Laws, says that legalization will wipe out the 60-billion dollar black market by placing marijuana in the open market. To recap, that means improving the economy by wiping out the black market and lowering the use of hard-core narcotics, all the while it is less potent and dangerous than alcohol.
There are many benefits to be gained from the Cannabis plant: decreased tax revenue and an improved economy, and decreased crime and use of hardcore drugs. This substance causing nothing but problems with its illegalization could in fact help the U. S. economy and its citizens with its legalization. So why isn't it legal? With all these reasons taken into consideration the decriminalization and legalization of marijuana seems like a very good idea.
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