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Many patients will be eligible to use medical marijuana as a choice for treatment in the near future. Unfortunately, not all patients can use medical marijuana because of the laws. It is not easy to change the law; however, many states are working for marijuana legalization. Medical marijuana has a lot of advantages, the same as existing medications. Therefore, it is a very good thing to increase the choices of treatment for patient.
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The legalization for pharmacological use would require the generation of jobs in the handling and growing of stable fields of a standardized potency, regulation groups, and production facilities. As with any drug on the market, tax revenues would also increase as the number of users who currently use the drug illegally would instead begin buying their medication from an authorized vendor. This would go in small part to helping relieve some of the burden of debt that the government faces allowing them to put that money towards programs in need such as education or healthcare (Seamon et al.,
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Once marijuana became illegal in 1937 legal prohibitions against the drug have cost tax payers billions of dollars in law enforcement. Billions of dollars have also been lost in revenues if marijuana had been taxed in the same manner as are alcohol and tobacco. Decriminalizing marijuana has a very large potential for becoming a large source of additional tax revenue. The government profits millions of dollars in cigarette and alcohol taxes. Imagine how much more money could be made if marijuana became legal.
In 2009 an estimated 858,408 individuals were arrested for marijuana violation. Out of those whom were charged approximately 89 percent were only charged for possession. Depending on the state, the government spends 1 billion to 10 billion dollars annually on the prohibition of marijuana. According to economics professor Jeffery Miron of Harvard University the statistics prove that the American government is further crippling the U.S. financially. After endless amounts of research it has been concluded that legalizing cannabis would be the best financial decision for the United States.