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How many times have you saw a tragic car accident resulting in a loss of life due to a drunk driver? How many times are the police called to the scene of a domestic violence crime, to find the aggressor is drunk? How many college students are rushed to the hospital because they drank too much and got alcohol poisoning? All of your answers to these questions most likely share a common theme. Think of all of the news stories that you have heard when somebody has died or been injured because of an overdose of drugs. Were any of them because of an overdose on marijuana? It is a god given right to each person in the country to drink when they please, and it should also be a person’s right to smoke if they want. Just because it may have a bad image doesn’t mean it should be illegal. Laws are made to protect the citizens who live in a common place, and outlawing pot hardly protects anybody. I wish that I could find a way that just may justify keeping the substance illegal, but I simply can’t. Legalizing the plant itself would do so much good. The United States spends a ridiculous amount of money on petty marijuana crimes, instead of trying to stop actually crime. So many people are imprisoned each year because of a marijuana crime, and we are paying the government out taxes to keep them in jail, paying for them to live, all because of some weed charges.