Liberty: people deserve freedom to use marijuana.
The first and most basic reason why marijuana should be legal is that there is no good reason for it not to be legal. Some people ask if marijuana should be legalized. But we should ask if marijuana should be illegal. People deserve the right to decide whether or not they should use marijuana. The government should not tell individuals what to do as long as they do not hurt other people.
Keeping marijuana illegal is expensive.
The second reason why marijuana should be legal is that it would save our government a lot of money. In the United States and Mexico, all the government participates in the "War on Drugs." We could save billions of dollars every year if we stop wasting money for sending people to jail for having marijuana. Besides, if marijuana were legal, the government would be able to collect taxes on it, and would have a lot more money to pay for effective drug education programs and other important causes.
Failure: prohibition doesn't help.
The third reason that marijuana should be legal is because prohibition does not help the country in any way, and causes a lot of problems. There's no evidence that suggest that prohibition might actually increase drug use. Marijuana is