6 Powerful Reasons to Legalize Marijuana, From the New York Times

The legalization of marijuana is on the ballots of many states this year, including California, Nevada and Arizona. If you live or can vote in one of these states, please vote for legalization. There is no reason to have cigarettes and alcohol be legal but ban marijuana, which is far less dangerous or addictive, at the same time. Taxing legal marijuana has created a MASSIVE budget surplus in Colorado, used to fund schools and highways. All the doom and gloom about marijuana legalization being passed in Colorado, or Washington, or Alaska, have not come true. The war on drugs also results in the mass incarceration of people of color for a crime no bigger than owning a plant, and it costs money to incarcerate prisoners who did nothing wrong.

I have not heard a single good argument against the legalization of marijuana. The only reason it is not legal on a federal level is because of old, far-right politicians with their heads stuck in the 18th century, and massive lobbying from the prison industry.