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Ok y'all just to let you know this blog will be controversial and interesting. I am not worried about my audience since it consist of two friends of mine. Nevertheless, you are warned.

This post is on my decision to be for the legalization of marijuana. For starters, I have never done drugs. I promise.

Here are a few reasons why...

If weed was legalized, it would be sold openly in a controlled environment. The weed sold would have to pass standards much like the standards placed by the Food and Drug Administration on every drug already sold in America. Because of this, amounts of marijuana sold, quality, and quantity would be regulated.

If such restrictions were placed on marijuana, the war on drugs would drastically change. First of all those who smoked marijuana illegally would now be able to smoke it legally and it would put your underground drug dealers out of businesses. Crime rate would significantly change.

Those who would sell marijuana would have to be licensed, much like those who carry arms. There would be a protocal and a way to tract amounts sold and to whom. With such regulations, it would control the selling of marijuana from becoming a problem.

Obviously this would not lead to the legalization of other more harmful illegal drugs such as cocaine or heroin. Marijuana is not addictive, has just as much tar as cigarettes and less damaging to brain cells than alcohol and has little affect on the liver.

Marijuana has less chemicals than coffee (1,500 vs. 400) so there is no correlation between chemicals and danger. In every way, cigarettes and alcohol impairs the body more than marijuana. No one has died from marijuana to this day.

Rules such as not being able to drive under the influence of marijuana should apply just like alcohol as both are mind altering and slow down reaction time.

In my opinion, marijuana in small amounts would be the same as drinking in moderate amounts. Abuse of marijuana would have negative affects just as abuse of alcohol does.

That's my opinion. Legalize it, the "badass" appeal of it will go down. The availability of it will diminish the black market trade of it. And face it, cannabais has been used for over 2,000 years. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln smoked some.

I still haven't smoked it, I am merely understanding how it may become legal in the future.