Why Pot Should Be Legal — 
And Why It Shouldn’t

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PRO: LEGALIZING WEED WOULD REDUCE GRIDLOCK IN THE COURTS
Pot is the country’s most popular illegal recreational drug. Between 1992 and 2001, the amount of people arrested for marijuana-related crimes nearly doubled to 750,000, with 88 percent of those cases being “possession only” charges. And those statistics have risen sharply; nearly 880,000 people were placed under arrest for marijuana between 2007 and 2009.

CON: LEGAL POT WOULDN’T END AMERICA’S DRUG PROBLEMS
In fact, it might not even make a dent. Behind marijuana, cocaine is the 2nd most common illegal drug used in the U.S. More than 34,000,000 million (or 15 percent) of all Americans ages 12 and up have used cocaine at least once in their life, and its far more harmful and addictive than as weed. However, if you’re not too high to pay attention, you might have noted that this is a specious argument for criminalizing pot. It’s like saying an innocent prisoner shouldn’t be set free because it wouldn’t fix America’s imperfect judicial system.