Legalizing marijuana answer to government’s $ problems?

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From a straight-edge kid, YES!! Absolutely, YES!!! Drug legalization is a way to solve financial difficulties, a very good way. The European nations that have legalized or severely decriminalized marijuana have increased state revenues, had better luck at getting people into drug rehab that actually works, and they have not had the moral failings that American conservatives often eschew when talk about legalization comes up. If we legalized marijuana that would free many thousands of people from American prisons, primarily blacks and latinos, who's only crime was having some marijuana on them when they got pulled over and weren't rich or white enough to get a good lawyer or fair treatment. The cost of prisons would go down and there would be more money for education and health care, things that actually matter.

I don't have time to write as much as I'd like to on this subject at this time, but this is a lost cause. America will legalize marijuana it's just a matter of now, or when Gen Y finally takes the political reins away from the baby-boomers and yuppies from Gen X.