Billions of Dollars are being spend every year in countries that prohibit marijuana use, sell, handling, etc. to find people in possession of it. 88% of all marijuana related arrests are from possession. We run out of places to put the people convicted so we build more jails, using more of our countries budget. The police force gets paid more than their share to find the plant users. Studies also show that no one has EVER died of weed "overdose", nor have they ever found a case of marijuana causing cancer of any sort. If anything it helps people. Chemo patients, Alzheimers patients, arthritis, and so many other health issues. It is also safer and less addicting than both cigarettes and alcohol. You're more likely to be violent under the influence of alcohol than marijuana. More braincells are killed and negative health effects occur with the use of cigarettes and alcohol. If it was legalized, even if only for medicinal purposes we would one, save money with our countries budget and two could tax it to help reduce the country's debt.

One of the best things it can do for us is hemp production as clothes, food, paper, biofuel, anything you can imagine, can be helped with the production of marijuana.