Marijuana legalization pros and cons

Answer 1

Pros:

Essentially removes the black marijuana market.

Removes an estimated 60% of the income for organized crime.

Gives our legal system a sense of reason.

Seperates the soft and hard drugs markets, eliminating the gateway effect.

Removes the stigma that marijuana smokers are getting as stoners (marijuana is after all a safer drug with less and less harmful side effects than alcohol).

Will give perhaps hundreds of billions of dollars in revenues every year worldwide.

Cons:

Will most likely lead to increased consumption.

Increased consumption means more health related issues that our medical system will have to deal with.

I'm sure people can come with more cons, but that's what I got right now at least.