Fifty Reasons to Legalize Pot

Fifty Reasons to Legalize Pot

1. Glaucoma
2. Cancer
3. The Restaurant Business
4. The Movie Business
5. The Music Business
6. Improve Americans’ attitudes
7. Slow the border violence
8. Give Mexico a viable, legal product
9. Cash cow for California and other states
10. Stop lying to kids about drugs
11. Stop imprisoning nonviolent offenders
12. Free up resources for fighting really dangerous drugs
13. Support for the Arts
14. Bring imagination back to popular music
15. Stop ruining otherwise productive lives
16. Force law enforcement to chase real criminals
17. Stoned driving is less dangerous than drunk driving
18. It is not physically addictive
19. It is relatively nontoxic
20. No one has ever died from using marijuana
21. Increase the sale of Twinkies
22. Offer youth a better alternative to binge drinking
23. Does not encourage Girls Gone Wild
24. Allow kids to be kids without inducing unnecessary paranoia
25. Encourage trust in the government by not lying about it
26. Obvious tax benefits at many levels of government
27. Stop wasting money on invasive drug testing programs
28. Train dogs to sniff out the drugs that really are dangerous
29. Decrease the number of spectator fights at sporting events
30. Support the paraphernalia industry
31. Revive the coffee chains
32. Raise the standard of TV programming
33. Discourage violence throughout the culture
34. Decrease prison overcrowding
35. Stop early release of violent criminals
36. Halt the disruption of the careers of star athletes
37. Open a source of revenue at public entertainment events
38. Stops being a gateway drug once it is legal
39. Encourage free thinking in a democracy
40. The most effective treatment of nausea
41. Give American farmers a cash crop
42. Decrease jobs for lawyers
43. Encourage better rapport between teens and their parents
44. Increase revenue for many general retailers
45. Decrease usage of dangerous painkillers
46. Offer a competitive drug to rival the pharmaceutical industry
47. Decrease sleep disorders
48. Decrease stress in our everyday lives
49. Decrease cases of domestic violence
50. Decrease handgun use to solve problems