Should Marijuana be legalized and how many people died of a Marijuana overdose last year, decade, century?
Marijuana should definitely be legalized, no one has ever died of marijuana ever. The people that say marijuana is “causing violence in Mexico” don’t understand how the world operates and they obviously didn’t pay attention to history. Prohibition failed for many reasons, but the primary reason it failed is because you can’t tell adults what to do on their time, you can’t tell them not to drink because organized crime will begin making and distributing anything you make illegal. The illegality of a substance causes artificial inflation, if money can be made off of selling said substance then there will always be people who are there to provide the substance. According to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter: “Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use.” The United States has more of it’s citizens in jail than any other c
