Marijuana legalized? What's your take on it?

Legalize it then tax the hell out of it.
The public in Canada and the U.S. are spendind ridiculos amounts of money on specialized police sectors to just crack down on marijuana its self. We're spending money to house one time offenders who now have their lives messed up because they are now deemed adicted to pot. There are countless busts on grow ops and there is never going to be an end in site. THIS IS ALL A WASTE OF TIME.
There are murders wandering free while some one who sold a plant takes their spot in a jail cell. THIS HAS GOT TO END.
Marijuana was one deemed a BILLION DOLLAR plant and still is. We as a consumer population can use virutally every part of the plant and put it to use. We could slow down forestry simply by making paper out of a plant that can also clothe millions.
WHY ISNT THIS BEING DONE THEN?
Because, the government has gone back and forth through out the cenuries deeming it good then bad, back and forth. It would make them seem as if they cant make up their mind if after all these years they say "Opps, sorry for the Inconvenience. Didnt mean to taint the thousands of you we stuck in prison and rehab on possion charges and trafficing and not all thoses rapest, murders, and woman beaters have it easier." Thats just one of the many.

So when any one asks me why i smoke weed and if i think it should be legalized i say yes.

I'm for spending tons of money on police overtime and facilities to house young offenders. Maybe they'll pick up a few new tricks while they're in there.

pot should be leagalized for numerous reason
the god agrees with it
the people agree with it
and our forefathers agreed with it the men who made our nation smoked pot so why cant we

"God made weed, man made beer, in God we trust" -Keith Witte

Marijuana should not be legalized for the same reason they've taken so many decent over the counter drugs off the shelves and put them behind the pharmicist's counter: ABUSE!

I know it has medicinal qualities, but that does not outweigh the damage to society by overuse.