It doesn't take a genius to realize how unbelievably safer marijuana is to that of cigarettes and liquor. Let's see, over 480,000 people die each year not only from smoking itself, but exposure to it as well, and add that to the 5.6 million young ones under 18, the ones who will eventually contract a deadly smoking-related disease, it's clear that marijuana is far safer. But still not legalized.

There are a plentitude of medicinal and medical qualities inherent within marijuana and THC. For one, we know that cannabis fights against cancer cells, could possibly limit HIV from evolving into AIDs, it kills cramps, nausea, headaches and, on a softer level, some major pains. Treatments using medical marijuana are ahead of their time and implore a certain outlook on the future of our life.

Besides the fact that marijuana prohibition is riddled with a host of issues, from the funding of gangs and cartels, to the unnecessary raising of funds and resources with consistent failure; people smoke pot, so much so that those who don't tend to just ignore it by now, and with its health benefits (added to the fact that it's still killed nobody) marijuana prohibition seems to look a lot like the early days of alcohol (and, almost seemingly identical in years, too).

The only thing the prohibition on cannabis has and will continue to do is celebrate the evil of other harmful narcotic elements, by raising the prices for cartels and drug traffickers. If there's a domestic product, one that is far better than the foreign supply chain, why prohibit cannabis if there's a possibility of not only taxing it, but then making a commodity out of it (like, say, I don't know...tobacco!).

LEGALIZE IT NOW!