When considering legalizing marijuana, there are many economic, health, and social issues we must analyze. There are a lot of economic benefits in the legalization of marijuana. Not only will it create jobs, empower small businesses, and destroy the black market; legalization will create the revenue needed for education, healthcare, and infrastructure that we are currently lacking.
Marijuana prohibition applies to everyone, including the sick and dying. Of all the negative consequences of prohibition, none is as tragic as the denial of medicinal cannabis to the tens of thousands of patients who could benefit from its therapeutic use.