Marijuana doesn’t just make you sleepy and take pain away. This plant is way more diverse than you think. In 2012 there was a study done by the american medical association, they tested 5,115 young adults over the course of 20 years. Half smoke pot and half smoke tobacco, the tobacco smokers lost lung function while the pot smokers actually increased their lung capacity. In …show more content…
Colorado was the first state to legalize marijuana in the U.S. in the first two months of 2014 they collected over 6 million in tax revenue, and multiplied by late 2015. It's estimated to go up by 200 million in the next four years. That's just in one state imagine if marijuana was legalized throughout the United States. If you ask how pot can save us taxpayers money? Let me explain, since the year 2000 our prison have incarcerated nearly 12,000 federal prisoner and about 33,000 state prisoners. In 2011 on average the cost of each federal prisoner was 29,000 and state prisoners cost was 31,286 as of 2010. Also it would help with how over crowded our prisons