asssssssssssssssssssssaa The legalization of marijuana would benefit the American economy and its medical field.
There is no question that the U.S. spends enormous amounts of money every year on propagandizing against marijuana and marijuana law reform, funding anti-marijuana science, interdicting marijuana, eradicating domestically grown marijuana and industrial hemp, law enforcement, and prosecuting and incarcerating marijuana smokers. In fact it "costs U.S. taxpayers in excess of $12 billion annually." (NORML). Of that $12 billion, $1.2 billion of it is spent just on prosecuting the offenders. The legalization of marijuana could open up a whole new market in America. There is need for equipment to grow marijuana as the trend toward domestic cultivation grows as shown here, "as a result of the trend toward domestic marijuana cultivation, a sub industry that markets sophisticated growing equipment designed for producing marijuana indoors has developed." (Hermes 45). There would......
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