it's NORML

I tend to agree with NORML’s policy for marijuana decriminalization. I believe that personal responsible use by adults in their home or another safe environment should be legal. Alcohol causes far more problems than marijuana in our society but because it is taxable and brings in a lot of revenue both in sales and in penalties, legislators turn a blind eye to the problems associated with alcohol use. Inversely, marijuana, with its medicinal properties and rare troubles associated with its use, because it is so easy to grow and not so easy to tax, has been demonized, and its use, criminalized. If they applied the same laws to marijuana that they do to alcohol then state revenue would go up and jails would stop being crowded with “criminal” marijuana users. I know a lot of people whose only problem with marijuana is the fact that it is illegal. If it was legalized for medicinal or responsible personal use with laws framed around selling, purchasing, driving and age limits rather than simple possession, we may find fewer legal troubles surrounding marijuana use than alcohol related incidents.