On Tuesday April 7th an article [editorial appeared titled "Fight [Finance] the bailout: Legalize Weed", the article was an informative piece letting the reader know the advantages that legalizing weed would give to our country in a time of economic decline. After reading the article I found my self strongly agreeing with the author and admired them for speaking out on an issue that is so strongly opposed.

I believe that Marijuana is no more dangerous then cigarettes maybe even less dangerous. As the author pointed out many believe that smoking Marijuana can lead to harder drugs and crimes, but lets face it if people want to smoke they are going to smoke legal or not. Legalizing Marijuana may even lower that crime rate, if it was free to purchase without fear of being caught people would be free to purchase it themselves not through a dealer. The economy would be able to save so much money if they stopped trying to locate sellers.

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