In 2009, there were an estimated 858 thousand arrests for marijuana, including simple possession, trafficking, and sales. Thousands of people have criminal records, and for what? A plant. About fiften thousand people die from alcohol related  diseases every year, around 5.4 million deaths are caused by tobacco every year. There hasnt been a single recorded death caused by the use of marijuana. Marijuana is belived to lessen the symtoms of Alzheimer's, Breast cancer, Glaucoma, and many other diseases. Thousands of people are losing there lives to marijuana, not from the use, not from addiction, but from the fact that so many are arested for nature. The legalizaton of marijuana would do more good than harm