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Let's be real about a couple of things in regards towards this issue: Yes, there are drug dealers that are out there illegally soliciting marijuana. Yes, drug dealers,or drugs for that matter, may play a role in violent crimes. Although both of these factors are somewhat true, why not decriminalize or legalize marijuana? Some studies have found that the decriminalization of marijuana, according to Budgetary Implications of Prohibition of Marijuana by Jeffrey Minon, would gain an estimated 6.2 billion dollars annually if marijuana was taxed at the same rate as alcohol and tobacco. Also, 7.7 billion dollars of government expenditures on prohibition enforcement could possibly be saved if marijuana was legalized. Man, I wish I was apart of the government because there's a lot this country could do with an extra estimated 14 billion dollars annually, just by letting people smoke a little "bud". Also, would this not cause an increase in employment in minority communities, where some people are "financially pushed" into drug dealing, if people didn't have to post on a corner all day and traffic marijuana and could be behind a desk making an honest living? It could possibly lower crime rate and force these drug dealers to get a J-O-B

What is Decriminalization?

"Damn n----, iz 40 beans (dollars) a queezy (quad)?", says my uncle.

"Yea, s--- n----- be taxin", I respond.

"Man I should've brought yo ass back home wit me", he responds, "s--- would've been cheaper and at least iz decriminalized".

Up until this conversation, I didn't totally understand what it meant for something to be decriminalized and for this matter marijuana being decriminalized. Decriminalization, for those of us out there that may be unfamiliar with the term means that a certain crime or criminal offense has reduced penalties. Decriminalization of marijuana started way back in the 70's in the U.S. and has changed, as peoples' views on medicinal and non-medicinal uses, over time since then. Such marijuana offenses, whether it be sale or cultivation, have affected the decriminalizing process of marijuana. Pictured above, one can see the areas in which the poessesion and or distribution of marijuana have affected the decriminalizing process. All these issues with decriminalizing marijuana lead up to society's real question: Should the non-medicinal use of marijuana be officially legal in the United States?