I am not a pot smoker, but I do think marijuana should be legalized. An ethics book I read for a class stated: "The U.S. would save about $7.7 billion per year in enforcement costs and would generate between $2.4 (billion) and $6.2 billion in tax revenue if marijuana were legalized. In the U.S., there are (more than) 850,000 marijuana arrests made each year, and more than 44,000 people are currently in prison for marijuana offenses."

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