considering quarter of the ppl in the U.S. have tried it ILLEGALY and it can be taxed i think it would be an awesome idea. Its also good to lower the income and murder rate of the mexican mafia and stop marijuana trafficing drug cartels.

All this talk is scaring me because I just quit smoking. Would companies still be able to test and deny you jobs if it was legal?

Pot is the third largest cash crop in the world, behind corn and rice. Think of the money we could save if was treated the same as liquor and tobacco. Plus the money we could save by not having the prison industry hold all these people. Plus all the grief we could save by taking the wind out of the sails of the drug cartells. We tried prohibition with liquor and it didn't work. We have had a war on drugs my entire life, and it hasn't worked. Let's not get emotional about drugs. Tax the hell out of it. Regulated the hell out of it. Pay off the national debt.

i wrote a paper about it, and between savings, taxes, ect, you're looking at 30 billion a year

marijuana is much safer to use then alcohol. it may be harmful to one's body, as is breathing in the air in any major city. it should be regulated by the FDA and USDA, with tax oversight by the IRS. tax should be collected at the point of cultivation and packaging, reducing the number of taxpayers and simplifying the collection process. the legal age, 21. when will it happen? when common sense in our society prevails, which could be a few more generations. the younger generations (born since mid to late 1950's) is less likely to be brainwashed by government propoganda as the older generations were. they were brainwashed to never, ever question authority. lawyers and far right special interest groups will be the biggest opponents. lawyers due to drop in income, right wing church groups out of their need to attempt to exert moral authority. PAC's for both groups will flood washington with money if any serious attempt is made by congress to pass any law moving towards legalization. $30 billion that was quoted above is pretty good estimate in my opinion. however, one should also add the reduced costs on our justice system. Plus, if local city, county and state governments could reallocate this wasted money, a lot of good could potentially be done to help our poverty situation in this country. too many paranoid people in today's society that are brainwashed to believe that marijuana is the devil weed to fully legalize at this time. progress is being made with medicinal and decriminalizing laws being passed in some progressive common sense states.