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Exploring Diversity

Legalize Marijuana

Driven by the Drug War, the U.S. prison population is six to ten times as high as most Western European nations. The United States is a close second only to Russia in its rate of incarceration per 100,000 people. In 2000, more than 734,000 people were arrested in this country for marijuana-related offenses alone. The US war on drugs places great emphasis on arresting people for smoking marijuana. Since 1990, nearly 5.9 million Americans have been arrested on marijuana charges, a greater number than the entire populations of Alaska, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming combined. In 2000, state and local law arrest for marijuana exceeded the combined number of arrests for violent crimes such as, murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault. So I ask my self why is the government spending so much time and money against marijuana? I believe that marijuana should be legalized.
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