More than 847,000 individuals are arrested per year in America due to repressive marijuana laws.

It is puzzling to me that it is legal to purchase, distribute and consume alcohol and tobacco, yet marijuana remains a criminal substance. Roughly 50,000 people die from alcohol poisoning and 400,000 due to health complications attributed to tobacco usage every single year.

Marijuana has yet to take a single life. According to the medical journal The Lancet, marijuana causes no harm to an individual's health.

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