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Marijuana Legalization Proposal

The spread of marijuana legalization has led to the re-imagination of the United States drug policies and how precisely the policies should change as the people seek alternatives to punitive criminal justice policies that have been responsible for more incarceration as well as the increased black market that have for long supported the violent illegal businesses. A significant number of the countries in the United States have taken an initiative to legalize the use of marijuana with different states having unique reasons for legalization from the others. Some of the countries such as Canada has legalized marijuana for medical purposes while others such as Colorado and the Washington States legalized marijuana from recreational use.

Marijuana in most parts of the united states have remained to be criminalized due to the association of the drug with criminal activities, but as it has downed, the need to legalize marijuana is rising forcing most of the countries to decriminalize the use as well as the possession of marijuana. Despite the decriminalization, there has been raised the need to control the use as well as the possession of the drug in the same way alcohol has been controlled for decades. Marijuana has numerous benefits and the efforts to legalize it will reduce the black market business and in turn reduce the rate of incarceration in the United States. States, therefore, should weigh the benefits that result from the legalization of the drug such as economical, medical as well as social benefits and make independent decisions in the policy formulation against the criminalization of marijuana for the benefit of the State and its residents.